High-profile cyber incidents, and new regulations, are forcing organisations to pay attention to recovery and resilience in cyber.
It is no longer about detecting and blocking attacks. Some will succeed. instead, CISOs need to ensure the business can withstand a cyber incident, and recover as quickly as possible.
But what is it like to experience an attack and to go through the recovery process?
And what lessons can you learn?
In this special episode, we speak to Edwin Moraal, CISO & IT adviser at VNOG, a regional public safety and fire service organisation in the Netherlands. The organisation runs the fire service for some 870,000 people across an area of 3,000 sq km, as well as disaster and crisis management.
VNOG was the victim a cyber attack that, as Moraal admits, pushed his organisation to the limits. But the organisation is much stronger now. As he puts it, “never waste a good crisis”.
And Moraal is joined by Tim Pfaelzer, Veeam’s general manager for EMEA, whose team helped VNOG with their recovery.
As both point out, resilience is about planning for a breach, understanding the human, technical and operational impacts of a cyber attack, and practicing responses until they become muscle memory.
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