Enterprise resiliency
Organizations encounter both internal and external threats all the time. Resiliency refers to the ability of an organization to withstand these threats and disruptions with minimum harmful impact and recover to normal business operation quickly.
It is important to differentiate between resiliency and recovery, which are often treated the same. While resiliency deals with avoiding or mitigating failure in the first place and continuing to provide services, recovery deals with restoring services after a failure has already occurred. Similarly, reliability, that is, the ability of a service to operate at an expected level, is an outcome of a resilient system.
Quick definitions
Resiliency: Keeping the system from complete failure
Recovery: Recovering data or applications after a failure has occurred
Reliability: An outcome of a resilient system performing at expected levels
A risk manager should analyze the organization’s requirements and...
