When Cyberattacks Are Inevitable, Focus on Cyber Resilience

There’s a common — but serious — mistake cybersecurity experts make: they focus all their resources on keeping malicious actors out of our system. It’s an understandable misstep. Protecting ourselves from potential cyber breaches is a critical part of the job. Even so, it’s impossible to be completely protected from every vulnerability. That’s because the good guys must protect against every possible vulnerability, while the bad guys only need one small crack in a company’s armor to get in.