Glossary
Cyber resilience
An organisation's ability to keep going during a cyberattack and to recover quickly afterwards.
Cyber resilience means preparing not only to avoid attacks, but also to keep operating when they happen and to bounce back quickly. It relies on reliable backups, a crisis plan and regular exercises. The idea: limit the damage rather than hoping never to be hit.
See also
DDoSAn attack that drowns a site under a flood of connections to make it unreachable.DORAA European regulation that requires the financial sector to better withstand IT outages and cyberattacks.EDRMonitoring software installed on the company's computers that spots and blocks suspicious behaviour.Human factorThe central role of human behaviour in security: most attacks go through a person first.