RESILIENCE, SECURITY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Holger Berens, chairman of the Board of the German Association for Critical Infrastructure Protection discusses holistic approaches to business security. The recent acts of sabotage on the Baltic Sea pipelines have shown that, in today’s disruptive times, the focus cannot only be on security against cyberattacks. In order to ensure adequate security, attacks from the air (e.g. drones), on land (e.g. overcoming perimeter protection) and from the water (e.g. remotely operated submarines) must be included in the risk and business impact analysis. Of course, cyber threats cannot be ignored, either. The question has to be how a holistic security system can be implemented. In today’s volatile business environment, a company must be resilient on many fronts. For managers, responsibility is not a choice; it is an obligation. They must invest specifically in the development of security processes to minimise risks in order to form a stronger, more efficient company. BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT The best way to make a company resilient is to build in business continuity management (BCM) from the start. BCM describes all measures that serve to prepare organisations for possible...