Having a culture of cyber-resilience that permeates the organization will allow new technologies such as 5G-enabled Internet of Things devices to be introduced in a safe and secure manner.

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Living through unprecedented times, enterprises have had to pivot and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in ways they never expected.

Cybersecurity had traditionally been based on a linear, predictable, and somewhat static capability centered around waterfall change management, consistency, and predictability.

COVID-19 then shifted the paradigm. The C-suite shifted its focus almost overnight to resilient business operations and customer experience programs, which address activities critical to the viability of an organization in a time of crisis. Organizations had to adapt to unprecedented change to support business and organizational resilience, whether through adoption of customer outreach (channels), digital transformation(DX), artificial intelligence/automation, or conversion of supply chains.

The modern chief information security officer (CISO)similarly was compelled to support organizational resilience, address workforce changes, tackle enhanced insider threat concerns, protect an expanded risk surface due to the rush to the cloud, and deal with an explosion of targeted phishing attacks.

Senior leaders and boards of directors were forced to challenge their view of the organization’s cybersecurity. If a major cyberattack were to hit the business, could they still perform their core mission during and after the attack? How resilient were their systems to a sustained campaign?

Questions surrounding resilience are not limited to cyberattacks from a nation-state or criminal syndicates. Insider threats have become more common as employees, contractors, or even third-party vendors with access to vital cloud-based company data are able to damage, delete, or exfiltrate these assets for their own financial gain. Are businesses resilient enough to withstand the intentional or accidental breach of regulated data such as employee social security numbers and work history?

Warehouse distribution centers and manufacturing shop floors are increasingly reliant upon 5G-enabled robots and other automated machines to fulfill vital operations. Their tolerance is minimal for any sustained downtime due to cyberattacks or to outages in the edge computing devices or cloud fabric where so many business and industrial functions are performed.
Boardroom discussions need to include asking how prepared department heads are for any major disruptions.

CISOs are used to being asked, “Are we secure?”After all, cybersecurity for most firms has seen a substantial funding increase in recent years. The new question that needs to be raised with CISOs, CIOs, chief manufacturing officers, chief medical officers, and other vital department heads is, “Are we cyber-resilient?”

Excerpt from source:  Data Breach Today Education