Resiliency: A Business Perspective

According to TechTarget, "Business resilience is the ability an organization has to quickly adapt to disruptions while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall brand equity. Business resilience goes a step beyond disaster recovery by offering post-disaster strategies to avoid costly downtime, shore up vulnerabilities and maintain business operations in the face of additional, unexpected breaches."

Although a lot of emphasis in this course and trip is based on resilience in architecture, it would be foolish not to include the importance of resilience within companies, as well as nations that have been subject to cyber warfare and other breaches in security. With the rise of new technologies, businesses have adopted more complex security systems that should enable them to protect their records and financials. However, in recent media, there have been major attacks on U.S. institutions that have allowed for resilience against cyber criminals to rise as a high priority. 

In the book we read as a class  Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong the Resilience Dividend , the author Judith Rodin discusses numerous examples of these attacks and challenges us to think of innovative approaches to be prepared for when things go wrong. 

One of the questions that has generated from these attacks is how can businesses and nations combat these attacks in a way that is more resilient and proactive as compared to reactive? That is, what can be done to ensure the sustainability of security and information now, and in the future? In response to such questions, as of January 16 2015, countries such as the United States and the UK have made arrangements to share their IT in the efforts of learning more about these threats and potential future ones. One interesting method that they plan to enact are the Cyber Attack "War Games". The two nations plan on staging attacks on both the City of London and Wall Street to better improve their security and allow each other to obtain better ideas to stay resilient against terrorism in its newest form. 

Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama discussing IT alliance