Source: CSO Online
Author: unknown
URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4200382/how-cisos-can-rise-to-the-business-resilience-challenge.html
ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY:
CISOs increasingly serve as chief resilience leaders, balancing recovery, uptime, and data-loss tolerance through practiced operations, governance partnerships, and business-aligned funding.
MAIN POINTS:
- CISO responsibilities now extend beyond prevention into response, recovery, and business resiliency.
- Operational “uptime” thinking makes CISOs natural owners of continuity and recovery planning.
- CrowdStrike’s chief resilience officer appointment signals resilience importance to external stakeholders.
- Boardroom language emphasizing “resilience” helps CISOs secure buy-in and cyber operations funding.
- Resilience should include data protection, not only restoring systems after outages.
- Regulated sectors may prefer longer downtime over risking breaches, penalties, and trust erosion.
- CISOs must define explicit data-loss tolerances alongside mean time to recovery targets.
- AI accelerates shadow data exposure, making unknown data locations a core resilience risk.
- Role-based access control is critical, yet few organizations implement it effectively.
- “ResOps” advocates repeated recovery drills, avoiding compliance-only continuity documents and overdefense bias.
TAKEAWAYS:
- Treat resilience as a business-operations mandate, not merely a security initiative.
- Measure recovery success by both service restoration and acceptable data-loss thresholds.
- Reduce hidden exposure by discovering shadow data and enforcing stronger access governance.
- Operationalize continuity through rehearsed communication paths and prioritized recovery runbooks.
- Share resilience accountability via partnerships among CISO, CIO, GRC/compliance, and CFO/COO.