Cyber resilience is no longer synonymous with buying another tool. Resilience means the org can absorb a hit, continue operating, and learn fast enough that the same threat never lands twice. That requires disciplined focus on three pillars.
Pillar 1 — Identity as the control plane
Identity attacks underpin nearly every breach report. Centralize workforce and machine identities, enforce just-in-time access, and expire standing privileges. Pair that with continuous verification for vendor and AI-service accounts.
Pillar 2 — Detection fueled by shared telemetry
Your SOC cannot defend what it cannot see. Normalize logs from cloud, SaaS, and AI inference layers into a single data model, then share detections back to engineering teams. Make “detection as code” part of every feature release.
Pillar 3 — Recovery tied to business impact
Tabletop exercises should start with customer promises, not server metrics. Define the maximum tolerable downtime for each product, connect it to restoration runbooks, and rehearse regularly. Include AI systems in every scenario.
Resilience is a habit. When teams continuously rehearse identity, detection, and recovery motions, they can adopt new AI-powered tooling without inheriting unnecessary risk.