Operational resilience is the framework that businesses and institutions use to assess their capacity to prevent, withstand, mitigate, and recover from disruptive incidents such as cyber-attacks and IT outages. This is with the goal of reducing downtime, reputational damage, and financial impact.

A misconception about operational resilience is that it’s not an essential consideration. However, when we consider that downtime can cost $9,000 per minute for large organisations and up to $5 million an hour in finance and healthcare organisations, the intrinsic value and importance of operational resilience becomes clear.

It ensures business continuity- even in the event of ransomware attacks or organisational disruption.

Here’s how to build a robust operational resilience framework to future-proof your organisation.

6 key steps to increase your operational resilience.