After a disruption or emergency occurs, it’s tempting to suspend some routine protocols, procedures and standards to recover as quickly as possible. It is often prudent and effective to do so but recovery teams should be mindful that cutting the wrong corners can increase risk, worsen the situation and increase recovery time.

The most serious risk to your organization isn’t malware, supply chain disruption, pandemic or any other event. Ironically, your biggest risk is your inability to adequately recover from multiple simultaneous disruptions. In the past few years, business and society have adapted to various ‘new normals’, and one of those is disruptions layered one on another and another.

In this post, we explain how cyber security isn’t cyber resilience. Cyber security only focuses on preventing attacks, but no system can be 100% secure and cyberattacks are inevitable. Cyber resilience focuses on how to anticipate, withstand, adapt, and recover from cyber disruptions. It’s about maintaining operations and minimizing downtime after security breaches or disruptions.