How The Best Cybersecurity Companies Lead With Cyber Resilience [Infographic]

So your security policy is in place, you are protecting data integrity, your endpoints are secure, and you’ve mitigated all the latest threats in cybersecurity. Now it’s time to think through what happens during and after an attack. Knowing your network and data are secure is the first step. Now it’s time to think about business continuity during an attack. That is where cyber resilience comes in.

A company’s cyber resilience is a measure of its ability to withstand and manage a cyberattack or data breach while continuing to operate effectively. Can accounting, customer service and fulfillment continue working as usual during an attack? Cyber resilience is the safeguarding of these business operations to avoid business disruption.

In Accenture Security’s Third Annual State of Cyber Resilience report, we find that most organizations are getting better at preventing direct cyberattacks. And investment in security innovation is growing. Over the past year there has been a 27% reduction in security breaches. Check out the infographic below for a summary of the remaining findings or you can download the full pdf report here.