When it comes to cybersecurity, a multifaceted approach is needed for resilience. In any resilience model, you have a primary site, a secondary site and so on to maintain business continuity of operations – fail-safe measures, if you will. For instance, if your business is based in New York City and the power goes out, you can operate remotely from a data center in Utah. It is about reducing the risk of operational impact.
With cyber resilience, it is the same kind of philosophy: reducing your cyber incident risk and not just relying on one line of defense or one capability you think will be the one that finally stops the bad actors. Looking at the standards for cyber resilience in federal agencies will help businesses understand both the essentials and the additional steps they need to take to fully safeguard their assets.