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and real-time basis. Organisations need to assume a state
of breach and develop processes and invest in capabilities to
mitigate any incidents that may arise.
Lying at the heart of cyber resilience in digital environments is
trust; the notion that the identity of parties to a transaction,
and the information they exchange can be vetted, verified and
secured while in transit or at rest. n
partly a cost and partly an investment, rather
than being completely one thing or the other.
17% of private sector respondents considered
organisational spending on cyber security as a cost
to the business, while almost 30% considered it
an investment – results that were widely echoed in
responses from government employees.
We believe in order to preserve the fantastic gains
made by digital transformation, cyber security needs
to be elevated to cyber resilience, which relates to
the adoption of a security life-cycle spanning the
planning, prevention, detection and protection,
and response to cyber incidents on a continuous
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“This government-led
cyber security initiative
follows the launch of a
cyber security strategy
by Dubai earlier this year,
aimed at strengthening
the city’s position
as a world leader in
innovation.”
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