Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 24 | Page 25

COMMENT 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 www.intelligentcio.com “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.” INTELLIGENTCIO 25