If modern cyber security doctrines assume breaches are inevitable, organisations must be prepared to respond and recover immediately.
This need has elevated cyber resilience as a core priority, as organisations build capabilities that go beyond detection and response to enable rapid recovery. This represents a clear shift from prevention-focused strategies in favour of managing the impact of incidents.
Cyber resilience describes an organisation’s ability to anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents, while still maintaining continuity of critical business operations. In this model, success is measured by how quickly operations are restored and how effectively damage is contained.
The growing importance of cyber resilience was highlighted by Gartner in a December 2025 report (Predicts 2026: Cybersecurity Program Rebrands to Cyber Resilience), which forecast that by 2028 half of all CISOs would formally rebrand their cybersecurity programs as cyber resilience programs. This reflected a broader mandate to ‘minimise business impact and ensure operational continuity in the face of increasingly complex and evolving cyberthreats’.
Writing in the report,…
