Business Continuity & Incident Response

Abstract

Today’s businesses must contend with increasing cybersecurity threats that continue to grow in a connected world and require sufficient business continuity (BC) and incident response (IR) strategies. This paper discusses the importance of BC and IR in an organization’s cybersecurity governance framework and, eventually, operational resilience and speedy turnaround time in response to disruptive events. IR focuses on cyber incident management, and BC looks at the organization’s capacity to operate during and after a disruption and to perform key critical functions. The integration of NIST frameworks, or ISO 27001, allows organizations to quantify and control the challenges posed by cybersecurity risks. Crucial topics of BC include responding to cyberattacks and natural disasters, disaster recovery, establishing crisis management, and contingency planning. The article highlights the rising demand for cybersecurity governance and so on to ensure that security activities craft the organization’s objectives. AI, automation, and other such trends are changing business continuity and incident response practice trends as they develop over time. This article advocates for proactive planning, regulatory compliance, and continued improvement that helps to guard organizations from evolving cyber threats and secure themselves in the future.