There is no let up in cyber attacks and cybersecurity incidents. This year has seen a series of high profile, and damaging attacks.
But, as businesses and organisations look to be facing ever greater threats, cybersecurity is changing its focus.
Increasingly, it is less about defence and more about resilience.
Organisations have to be able to withstand and recover from an attack. It’s no longer about preventing breaches: the sheer volume of cyberattacks means that is no longer possible.
Instead, security teams and boards should assume an attack will happen, prepare keep the organisation operating during an incident, and aim to recover as quickly as possible.
Our guest is James Blake, VP of global cyberresilency strategy and consulting services at Cohesity.
He argues that this means integrating business continuity and disaster recovery with cybersecurity. And organisations should rehearse for cyber incidents, training staff to operate under what can be extreme pressure.
A good playbook, Blake suggests, is not enough. It’s not about planning to fail, it’s about planning to recover.
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