In 2026, cyber attacks are far from the sole provision of cybersecurity professionals. These incidents pose real, hugely destructive impacts for businesses and can seriously impact employee and customer experience in the short and long term.
It’s not a matter of if, but when your business is targeted by threat actors. But in the gap between realizing this and implementing the right cyber resilience strategy, there’s potential for enormous financial losses.
How can businesses prepare for the worst? And what role can a trusted partner play in reaching true cyber resilience?
In this special edition of the ITPro Podcast, in association with 11:11 Systems, Rory is joined by Sean Tilley, senior director of sales EMEA at 11:11 Systems, and Sam Woodcock, senior director of solutions architecture EMEA at 11:11 Systems.
Highlights
"Having spent 25 years in the industry, from my view and how I take it, prevention is about stopping incidents from happening or spreading, whereas resilience is really accepting that incidents will happen and focuses on keeping the business running, recovering quickly, and doing so safely and predictably. I think while we've seen the industry shift is from that prevention only thinking to more of a broader focus on readiness, proven recovery, especially as I would say. "
"I'd also say downtime is no longer an IT inconvenience or short term disruption, it's very much a direct, quantifiable financial hit. I'd say that's before you even consider regulatory exposure, the reputational damage, or even the long the long tail of customer churn that can happen in real incidents. Downtime often lasts hours or days, therefore customer trust is impacted and recovery efforts definitely escalate quickly."
"We're seeing organizations with limited time, limited budget, and also they have that general lack of expertise in their business. And also, while all of those things are said, a lot of organizations are looking to innovate, they're looking to utilize AI, they're looking to push their business forward from a objective perspective. And they don't really want to potentially be looking after, for example, the recovery element because of that lack of skillset, or because they want the focus on that innovation."
"You're never going to have a point where everyone is 100% aware and 100% ready. There are going to be new challenges, new solutions or new threats every single month that an organization faces. By measuring these things, we can then align to what improvements we need to make and target the awareness and training towards those gaps that we're identifying as part of that exercise as well."
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