Cyber-Resilience: Protection Is No Longer Enough
- 18/06/2026
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The counterpart of digital transformation is an increased dependence on information systems, without which no company can operate today. Faced with the growing number of threats and risks targeting systems and data, cyber resilience has become a top priority for any organization seeking to protect its integrity, operational continuity, and reputation.
Resilience is an organization’s ability to overcome adverse events or conditions while minimizing their impact on critical activities and processes. As companies across all industries continue their digital transformation, they must ensure not only the security of their IT and digital assets but also their ability to recover quickly in the event of an incident, disaster, or cyberattack. This is precisely the purpose of a cyber resilience strategy, which complements an essential cybersecurity policy.
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More Essential Than Ever: Protecting Yourself
The diversification of systems, the widespread adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications, the circulation of data, and its transformation through countless internal and external processes are making the job of CIOs and Information Security Managers (CISOs) increasingly complex. Their mission is no longer simply to secure a clearly defined perimeter and a few databases stored on internal servers. Instead, they must ensure that the company’s cyber and information assets—data, systems, networks, and related processes—are adequately protected against risks that they are primarily responsible for identifying.
When it comes to cybersecurity, most people immediately think of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware attacks, whose number has surged in recent years and affected every type of organization: businesses, government agencies, local authorities, universities, hospitals, and more. Whether motivated by political goals or purely financial gain, cybercriminals know that no organization can function without access to its data. Increasingly organized and equipped with substantial technical resources, they are all the more likely to raise their demands knowing that 7% of victims* agree to pay the requested ransom in order to regain access to their data, prevent its disclosure, and resume normal operations.
Cyber risks, however, are not limited to these forms of extortion. Although they receive less attention, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, phishing campaigns, and other malicious activities are also very common and can have serious consequences. Added to these are risks that are impossible to predict, affecting service providers on whom many companies depend for their online operations. Examples include the fire that destroyed OVH’s data center in Strasbourg in March 2021 and the service outage experienced by Fastly’s CDN in June 2021, which made thousands of websites and web services unavailable worldwide, causing significant losses for affected organizations. How many of them had anticipated such a scenario? How many had a contingency plan in place to overcome it?
Identifying and, Above All, Quantifying Risks
Given the global and systemic nature of cyber risks, as well as their unpredictability, no company can afford to operate without a robust security policy based on a detailed analysis of the risks associated with the systems, applications, and data it uses on a daily basis.
This is also an opportunity to revisit the very concept of risk. By defining risk as the probable frequency and probable magnitude of a future loss for the organization, quantitative approaches derived from the insurance industry make it possible to focus protection efforts on the cyber and information assets that are truly essential to business operations. These critical assets are not always the ones people assume they are.
For example, every company will naturally think of protecting its financial data, financial applications, and customer databases. However, if you are a logistics company, there is a strong chance that your most operationally critical system is the server that generates shipping labels. If that server goes down—whether due to a cyberattack, flooding at your premises, or simply a hardware failure—your operations may come to a complete standstill.
Do you know how long your company can withstand such an interruption without being put at risk? Do you know exactly how much money, in euros, your organization stands to lose if this risk materializes?
As every CISO knows, translating cyber risks into potential direct and indirect financial losses provides executive management with a completely different perspective on cybersecurity investments. It becomes much easier to justify the spending required to effectively protect a specific asset, whether through anti-ransomware solutions, stricter access controls, software and hardware redundancy, specialized insurance coverage, or other protective measures.
Focusing on the Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Although still not widely adopted, quantitative approaches to cyber risk make it possible to prioritize IT security investments. They also help companies avoid investing heavily in defenses against threats that may be trending but do not actually pose a significant risk to their operations—either because they do not target critical assets or because basic cybersecurity practices are not being followed internally.
All studies confirm that users are the weakest link in IT security systems. Before deploying a sophisticated defensive arsenal or purchasing expensive cyber risk insurance, it is essential to ensure that employees understand best practices and follow fundamental security rules regarding password management, opening suspicious attachments, data sharing, and connecting to online services that may not provide adequate security guarantees.
Furthermore, since data is a company’s most valuable asset, it must be protected by a rigorous backup policy covering all applications—including business-critical applications—and all servers. Workstations should not be overlooked either, as they often contain highly important operational information and data.
From Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience
While cybersecurity focuses on identifying, preventing, and minimizing risks, a company’s true cyber resilience is measured after the fact by its ability to recover as quickly as possible—or, even better, to continue operating when a risk has materialized. This capability cannot be improvised. It must be built, nurtured, and supported by the implementation of a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) covering all business activities and incorporating two fundamental concepts.
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