Security News > 2021 > January > How to be cyber-resilient to head off cybersecurity disasters
Find out why experts suggest focusing on cyber-resilience instead of piling on more cybersecurity solutions.
Financial losses, scarred reputations, and customer mistrust seem to indicate cybersecurity is a poor gamble and only worth the financial drain to make it difficult for cybercriminals-similar to how door locks keep honest people honest.
In zero trust, those responsible for cybersecurity also need to worry about malicious domains.
The cybersecurity team needs to develop action plans to combat the various types of cyberattacks.
"Non-security colleagues may have better ideas than you think," says Terena Bell in her CSO commentary, "What is cyber resilience? Building cybersecurity shock absorbers for the enterprise." "Accounting, for example, knows about controls, and they understand the forensic process when something isn't right in the transaction logs," she writes.
Cyber-resilience enfolds cybersecurity into the process, while including ideas from people who work with the company's data but are not normally responsible for protecting it.