As IT environments become more complex, they are increasingly vulnerable to failures and cyberattacks. Organizations struggle to bounce back when attackers strike, despite massive investments in backup and recovery. In fact, of the IT and security leaders who experienced a successful ransomware attack a staggering 86% admitted to paying a ransom to recover their data or stop the attack. Furthermore, in 74% of those attacks, threat actors were able to successfully harm the organization's backup and recovery options.

Eliminating risk entirely is impossible. The focus must shift from pure prevention to true cyber resilience.

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Cyber resilience is the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyberattacks. It requires accepting that incidents will happen and putting equal emphasis on minimizing the blast radius and enabling rapid recovery when they do.

Building cyber resilience comes down to a simple equation:

Reducing Risk + Minimizing Impact + Optimizing Recovery = Cyber Resilience

• Reducing Risk means understanding your threat landscape and identifying vulnerabilities.

• Minimizing Impact starts with containing the blast radius through techniques like segmentation, access control, and encryption.

• Optimizing Recovery requires robust data protection, extracting threat artifacts, and orchestrating recovery workflows to get your business running quickly.

Where Do You Stand?

So, how do you gauge your organization's current state of cyber resilience? A helpful way to understand your posture is by evaluating your organization against a five-level maturity model:

1. Unprepared: Completely reactive and ad-hoc
2. Ad Hoc: Some plans are in place but are siloed and inconsistent
3. Defined: Plans are documented and aligned across the organization
4. Managed: Processes are measured and controlled
5. Optimizing: Focus on continuous improvement

To truly understand where you are, you must evaluate your current state across multiple security disciplines—before, during, and after the attack lifecycle.

Take the Next Step: Build Your Plan With Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment you can turn new insights into action with a a prioritized plan to strengthen your security posture across disciplines like data protection, threat analytics, and incident response.

Dive deeper into Rubrik’s cyber resilience framework and discover 10 best practices for building resilience. Plus: learn how to track the metrics that matter most to your stakeholders. Read Building Cyber Resilience: Are You on the Right Track?