Expert Tactics to Achieve Cyber Resilience
What can we learn from Ukraine about building a more cyber defensive future? Here are some strategies these experts suggested:
- Increase information sharing about cybersecurity: As threats change, discuss this with your partners, whether that’s team members or international allies. “Broadcast what’s happening and raise awareness,” Easterly said. This protects future victims and activates others to create a response plan, if they haven’t already.
- Learn everything about the threat, fast: “If we hear of an attack, we want to understand the tactics and scale as quickly as possible,” she said.
- Build a culture of cyber resilience: “Train people for a crisis from the day they start working. Train them to engage in a global community of cyber resilience,” said Zhora. This level of preparedness will make teams better equipped to handle threats.
- Run regular cyberattack drills: “Know all the strategies in your playbook and do regular exercises so you are ready in the face of disruption,” Easterly said.
- Trace the cyberattack: Tracing a cyberattack is difficult and requires a diagnostic assessment of what went wrong. But it can also reveal weak spots in your infrastructure.
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Why We Need an Adaptive Approach to Cybersecurity
Experts on the panel emphasized that as IT leaders put these tactics into practice, they should also think about corporate cybersecurity responsibility. “We must make it a top-down business imperative as much as a safety and security issue,” said Easterly. “Let’s invest in it intelligently.”
Rather than after-the-fact patch management, she suggested, a sustainable approach to cybersecurity should include building products that are secure from the start.
Finally, it’s important to stay adaptive and unified as threats shift. “Cybersecurity is a really complex problem. We must remember, if there’s a threat to one, there’s a threat to many,” said Easterly.
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