Beyond Prevention: Building Cyber Resilience in Distributed Systems

Cyber resilience is about more than just security; it’s about business continuity in the face of adversity. In a modern distributed environment, we must assume that breaches will eventually occur.

Resilience vs. Security

While security focus is on keeping threats out, resilience focuses on how the system behaves when a threat gets in. This involves building self-healing architectures and implementing rapid recovery protocols.

Key Strategies

• Redundancy: Distributed systems that ensure no single point of failure.
• Chaos Engineering: Intentionally injecting faults to test the system’s ability to recover.
• Incident Response Automation: Speeding up the time-to-recovery through automated containment and cleanup.