Over the last couple of years, more than cybersecurity, the term ‘cyber resilience’ gained momentum. During the peak of cyberattacks, or the era of cyber pandemic, many businesses realised that cyber resilience is the way to go.
Cyber resilience is the ability to consistently produce business results in the face of constantly shifting risk. Organisations can now show genuine assurance in their cyber resilience. The terms “cyber security” and “cyber resilience” share a lot in common. They do, however, have certain differences. These factors enable their complementary use, which successfully protects networks. One may learn how to use them together and stop data breaches by being familiar with their definitions and distinctions.
Now, one step further is ‘cyber workforce resilience’. This is an approach that improves the cybersecurity capabilities of the entire workforce facilitating a fundamental shift in how organisations think about team performance and risk reduction. Companies can continuously test, measure, and optimise cyber knowledge, skills, and judgment using one potent platform with the aid of ‘cyber workforce resilience’.
When “check the box” solutions like point-in-time training and certifications don’t bring tangible results, and businesses struggle to understand the cybersecurity capabilities, cyber resilience should be on top of mind.
Immersive Labs, an expert in cyber workforce resilience, believes that an organisation’s cyber resilience should be continuously measured, compared with industry benchmarks, and improved using real-world scenarios and realistic simulations. Gaps must be identified, invested in, closed, and re-evaluated. Teams should have the opportunity to continuously exercise their skills to ensure they are prepared to respond to the latest threats. As organisations adopt this data-driven approach, they are better equipped to mature their cybersecurity programmes and achieve their business goals while reducing risks and improving cyber resilience.
There are three major benefits for organisations that take the path of cyber workforce resilience:
- Cyber Workforce Resilience helps move past legacy training and tabletop exercises to hyper-realistic labs and simulations that measurably improve – and prove – cyber resilience. It’s a challenge today to truly understand the capabilities of your people and teams and to know how they will perform in a crisis.
- By partnering with Immersive Labs, businesses can understand and prove the cybersecurity capabilities the teams require to respond to today’s threats. The company aid hire, train, and retain cybersecurity talent.
- Cyber Workforce Resilience prepares the defensive and offensive cybersecurity teams, cloud and application security practitioners, developers, and more.
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