Sunday, November 5, 2017

Cyber Resilience- what I've found (Part 1)

A year or so ago I came upon the idea of "cyber resilience", which is a general concept of 'hardening' or toughing, or making more resilient, our IT/cyber systems.  I started seeing the terms used a lot, and many of the times I've seen it has been in use of ideas that we need to focus MORE on resilience then cybersecurity, or that cyber resilience is the next step beyond cybersecurity.

Here are some of the articles I read:  one, two, three.

I have a lot of problems with this idea.  This lead me to do research on the topic and I developed a presentation which I've given twice, most recently at the 2017 ISSA International Conference.  Below you'll find my research.

Now, this is not to say I'm not in agreement with the idea of cyber resilience.  What I have a problem is that its separate from or a next step from cybersecurity.  If people think this, I think they don't understand what cybersecurity SHOULD be.