Why Knowing Your Technology Matters Before A Cyber-attack

Building cyber resilience: chapter 1

For most large organizations, knowing exactly what technology they run and how it fits together is harder than it sounds. Growth and change make the picture difficult to keep current. In a cyber incident, how complete that picture is goes a long way toward determining how quickly the business can recover.

In brief

• Uncertainty about systems and devices is the norm rather than the exception, even in well-run organizations.
• Acquisitions, operational technology, and connections with third parties all make the estate harder to see as a whole.
• Recovery depends on the whole chain beneath each critical service, so a shared picture built in advance saves time when it matters most.