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What is cyber resilience?

Jul 01, 2025

Managed IT Services

Recent cybersecurity statistics underline the challenges facing executives working to develop “cyber resilient” organizations. What is cyber resilience? A company’s ability to anticipate, endure and recover from digital crises like ransomware attacks.

That’s why these trends are so troubling:

Proliferating cybercrime syndicates: the ranks of ransomware groups grew 67% last year.
Accelerating pace: analysts forecast ransomware assaults happen every two seconds by 2031.
Innovative social engineering: new malware methods like “smishing” combine elements of email, SMS, voicemail and/or scanning technologies.
Diversifying attack vectors: ransomware increasingly invades networks through today’s broadening array of mobile devices and remote connections.
Widening target zone: security breaches through the Internet of Things (IoT) increased more than 100% last year.

No wonder surveys show a third of IT professionals have little confidence in their company’s cyber resilience. The reason? Those tech pros have little faith in their backup and disaster recovery (BUDR) solutions. A premier IT managed services provider (MSP) can alleviate this anxiety by implementing a hybrid business continuity routine:

Maintain a regular local image backup of operating systems, applications and databases on site.
Generate and store an offsite backup daily as protection against failures at facilities.

This BUDR configuration uses cloud tech to enable rapid restoration in the wake of a cyber disaster like a ransomware breach. Want to learn how? Give us a call.