Cyber resilience isn't measured in firewalls. It's measured in minutes

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Cyber resilience isn't measured in firewalls. It's measured in minutes.

Time has quietly become the biggest driver of cyber costs. For years, we've measured cyber security success by what organizations could stop. How many attacks were blocked? Which vulnerabilities were patched? How much was invested in the latest security tools?

They're no longer the questions that matter most.

It isn't a groundbreaking observation to say the threat landscape has changed. Attackers are moving faster, AI is accelerating both offensive and defensive capabilities, and businesses are becoming more digitally connected than ever before. If we accept that no organization can eliminate cyber risk entirely, then our definition of resilience has to evolve too.

The organizations that emerge strongest aren't necessarily the ones that avoid being breached. They're the ones that detect, respond and recover fastest.

Partner in the Cybersecurity Practice at Grant Thornton UK.

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