Business Resilience in a Cyber World

Abstract

This chapter examines the shift from business impact analysis to the business resilience required to safeguard organizations from cyber-attacks and endure such attacks if they befall. Skilled business resilience experts support accepted practices that enhance efficiencies and quality of business continuity strategy and planning programs, plus guard against cyber terrorism. Via this text's pages, readers learn about resilience as the final critical planning, preparative, and related action recommended to substantiate that organizations' significant business functions should either persist to function despite serious cataclysms or events of cyber terrorism that otherwise might interrupt services or production or will be recovered to an operational state within a reasonably short period. Explored is evidence of the ubiquitous reliance on technology in business strategies. Shown is how business resilience procedures provide an array of advantages. Readers will learn about business resilience as a long-term solution and business resilience cyber-risk management strategies.