Cyber Resilience
With the rise of digital, the interconnectivity of the world is unquestionable and cyberspace is the world that was born, making the saying “The world is now a village” My words are “The world is now an interconnected village”.
As we are in the era of “digital everything” the need for cyber resilience has increased, paving the way to sustainable development and growth in the cybersecurity landscape.
A synergy between public and private sector stakeholders will help to find solutions. The late UN scribe Mr Kofi Annan said “There is no development with security and no security without development”
Solutions to problems of increase in cybertheft and data breaches lead only to the place of capacity building so cyber professionals are well equipped to identify, contain, and stop attacks that occur in cyberspace.
What is Cyber resilience?
This is the ability of an organisation to prevent withstand and recover from cyber-attacks.
Cyber resilience goes beyond preventing cyber attacks and has a proactive approach to cybersecurity in that it anticipates that it still needs to detect and respond with minimal damage occurring as it recovers from attacks.
Components of Cyber resilience
Risk Assessment: It is important to take stock of the assets of your organisation, their value, and the potential vulnerability to know the cyber threat severity and impact
Prevention: Best security practices will be without fail help with prevention some examples include setting up firewalls, anti-virus, and security awareness training.
Detection: Intrusion detection systems, security information, event management systems, and monitoring tools should be addressed.
Response: Always have a well-defined and drafted plan should always be in place and ready to be activated.
Recovery: The ability of an organisation to recover from a breach or an attack and return to normalcy as quickly as possible is very important to be resilient.
Adaptability: The ability to adjust to the fast pace of cyberspace and changing threats
Continuous Improvement: Cyber resilience is ongoing and involves regular updates of policies, systems, procedures, and techniques
Benefits of Cyberesilence
The reduced risk of cyberattacks is because you have made it more difficult for attackers by being proactive
There is a reduced impact because of the preparedness of the organisation.
The organisation increases amongst the customers and peers, and generally has a good reputation.
