Lessons from Gartner on Infusing Resilience Into Your Security and Risk Program

2025 demands a new approach to cybersecurity resilience. As network complexity collides with ever-more volatile threat and operating landscapes, traditional security measures have become untenable.

While a security framework with perfectly synchronised people, processes, and partners might sound aspirational, it's no longer something you can choose to reach for—it's essential for business survival. Yet too often, proactive, sustained cyber resilience takes a back seat to reactive responses when cyber-attacks and operational failure scenarios strike.

A timely research report from Gartner, Succeed as an SRM Leader by Infusing Resilience Into Your Program 1), offers a practical blueprint for organisations caught in these reactive cycles. It reveals how to build cyber resilience into your operations and create an adaptable system that can tackle constant interruptions, remove complexity, and stay prepared for threats both big and small.

At Zscaler, we believe cyber resilience will define business success in 2025. And that a new approach is desperately needed. This isn't about better controls or technology alone – it's about making those controls and technologies work more effectively while supporting the teams that use them. Our mission this year is to help our customers unlock The Resilience Factor—something we define as the unique ability of a business (or indeed individual employee) to withstand adversity, adapt operations, and move forward with confidence, ready to thrive in the face of any challenge.

Ready to strengthen your organisation's cyber resilience strategy? Download the Gartner report now to discover practical steps for building a more resilient security programme. And stay tuned—this is just the beginning of our exploration into The Resilience Factor.

1) Gartner, Succeed as an SRM Leader by Infusing Resilience Into Your Program, Authors: Michael Aldridge, Belinda Wilson, Arthur Sivanathan, 18th June 2024