Cyber resilience needs to be treated with equal seriousness and attention, whether you are running a small business or a giant multinational. Furthermore, institutions and enterprises also are not able to disregard abilities to prevent and withstand, as well as recover from the problems caused by cybersecurity incidents.
Just this year, South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) announced it had suffered an attempted security breach that threatened the personal information of the commission’s employees and clients. This led to the commission shutting down its IT systems and completing subsequent maintenance, but not before it complied with all regulatory requirements and informed parties, including the Information Regulator and State Security Agency.
Such incidents demonstrate how organisations need to have protocols and a response plan in place for potential breaches. To do that, they need an understanding of the correct course of action, what’s expected of them, and how to best mitigate threats to business continuity, performance, and assets.