Kyndryl’s Kris Lovejoy explains how to prepare for upcoming EU regulation and explains why cyber resilience should be viewed from a hygiene perspective.
“We define cyber resilience as the ability to anticipate, protect against, withstand or recover from any and all cyber-related events, including but not limited to cybersecurity events.”
That’s according to Kris Lovejoy, a global security and resiliency leader at Kyndryl, who recently spoke to SiliconRepublic.com about cyber resilience and upcoming cybersecurity regulation in the EU.
Lovejoy found that some organisations tend to “chase a lot of technology” to solve the issues around cyber resilience, but she said “it’s not really the answer”. Instead, organisations should think of cybersecurity protection “from the perspective of hygiene”.
“The answer is really to focus on knowing what kind of technologies you have in place through good inventory systems, ensure you’re patching them, ensuring you’re hardening them, ensuring you’re monitoring them, and ensuring that you have some mechanism to recover them when something goes wrong,” she said.
Lovejoy also spoke about upcoming regulation in the EU, including the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), as well as tips for companies trying to improve their gender or ethnic diversity when bringing in new candidates.
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Words by Leigh Mc Gowran
