Why Cyber Resilience is the Key to Future-Proofing Your Business

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Global events, such as recessions and pandemics, can have far-reaching social and economic consequences that impact organizations and their management. In light of this, top-level management must oversee a variety of concerns, ranging from employee and customer satisfaction to financial difficulties, supply chain disruption, and skyrocketing cyberattacks.

To address these multifaceted challenges, businesses are increasingly focusing on resilience. Organizational resilience involves the ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to gradual changes and unexpected disruptions to survive and thrive.

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, businesses that had already cultivated resilience through remote and hybrid work and digital acceleration could recover from setbacks more quickly than their competitors. This underscores the importance of prioritizing resiliency within your organization.

One key step towards building resilience is to focus on cyber resilience. This involves ensuring your organization consistently delivers its desired outcomes, even in adverse cyber events.

Cyber resilience a key to transformation

Cyber resilience is the foundation of a strong business and brand. This is why over 65% of organizations invest in their cyber resiliency posture. s time to look inward and identify and close security gaps to build a resilient future.

While establishing cyber resilience, consider the following:

  • You must deploy tools to detect, evaluate and handle network and information system risks, including those that affect your supply chain.
  • Identifying irregularities and potential cybersecurity issues through network and information system monitoring is critical before they morph into severe threats.
  • Implementing an incident response strategy is crucial to ensure operational continuity, where you can bounce back quickly, even if you are the victim of a cyberattack.
  • Always ensure that your cyber resilience strategy is in the hands of top management and integrated into day-to-day operations.

Companies that invested in cyber resilience expected to get the following results:

  • It increased secure collaboration within the organization.
  • Better preparedness, response or remediation skills in a security incident.
  • Improved integration of people, processes and technology.

Future-proof your cyber resilience

  • Employee training: Providing continual security awareness training to your employees enables them to identify threats and vulnerabilities. It enhances employees’ defensive abilities and prepares them to deal effectively with crises.
  • Reset your security systems: Regularly audit your digital and physical procedures to identify vulnerabilities. Set the critical strategies to their best available configurations to prevent unauthorized access.
  • Adopt advanced technologies: Legacy technologies may need to be more effective in dealing with today’s challenges. As a result, having the most up-to-date and effective technologies and tools to secure your organization is critical.
  • Partner with an MSP: Resiliency is no longer a choice but a necessity. However, it requires a significant amount of time, effort and expertise. Collaborating with an expert partner like us who can handle all resiliency and technology matters for you is always best.

Strengthening client relationships

Cybersecurity has become critical to business success in today’s uncertain security. Therefore, you can gain a competitive advantage and attract more clients by providing comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. Our commitment to protecting your data and assets is essential for your business’s survival and instrumental in building stronger client relationships, increasing loyalty, and improving retention rates.

Contact us today at www.CybersecurityMadeEasy.com, and let’s start securing your business against attacks.

Terry Cutler

I’m Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University, an educational system helping to defend corporations and individuals against growing cyber threats. I’m a federal government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the founder of Cyology Labs, a first-line security defence firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. In 2020, I wrote a bestselling book about the secrets of internet safety from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. I’m a frequent contributor to National & Global media coverage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and social network dangers families and individuals face daily.