CHAPTER 13

Cybersecurity Resilience

In this chapter, you will

•   Examine the elements that create redundancy

•   Understand the types of backups and the roles they play in resilience

Systems are designed to operate for a purpose, and we use the term risk to describe the outcomes when issues degrade performance from an optimal state. For a variety of reasons, expecting a system to run flawlessly, at all times, is unreasonable. We can put defenses in place to mitigate the issues that occur when a system is degraded, but it still raises the question of how one gets back to full performance. This is where resiliency comes in. A resilient system is one that can return to proper operating conditions after having something go wrong. And in today’s ...

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