Almost on a perpetual basis, people are exposed to ransomware, natural disasters, and outages that affect their businesses and daily lives. Over the past year, nearly everyone experienced this in a very personal way with COVID-19. Some enterprises are better prepared than others — the ones that realize the core question is not “If? but “When?”
The answer lies somewhere under the general heading of resiliency. Scientists have found vaccines for viruses and society will bounce back from natural disasters. There may even be a cure for ransomware someday. Today, the best bet is shore up disaster preparedness/recovery plans as well as the critical infrastructure to mitigate these threats.