Preparing a business for cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are generally targeted and very well defined, designed to cause maximum impact and disruption to business operations.

The CEO needs to prepare their business for such situations. Often, organizations wrongly believe that because they have an extensive security team, a cyberattack will never succeed. Or that because they have made a substantial investment to protect against attacks, a cyberattack will never be successful. Those are myths—100 percent security should not be a goal, nor is it a realistic target.

Securing your organization is about ensuring that if an attack does prevail, the business will be able to continue its operations. Resilience is about keeping your information assets accessible to the organization as much as keeping them safe. Such resilience builds trust among your customers and protects your reputation in the event of an attack. Hence, it is crucial to plan for failure, including security control...