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Cybersecurity or Cyber Resilience: Which

Matters More?

Planning Beyond an Enterprise Security Posture and Toward Reliable Business Continuity

By Amanda Satterwhite, Managing Director of Cyber Growth & Strategy, Accenture Federal
Services

Cybercrimes in the United States have resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in losses. The
threats are expanding exponentially endangering our national and economic security.

With off-the-shelf malware readily available, minimal expense and effort is needed for nation-state actors
and cyber criminals to disrupt governmental operations for financial and political gain. The rise of AI-
based attack vectors has only complicated federal agencies’ efforts to safeguard critical systems.

In this ever-challenging ‘new normal’, the federal government needs more than cybersecurity. Cyber
resilience is now also essential. What’s more, of the two, resilience may ultimately prove more important.
Cyber resilience ensures that an enterprise can not only adapt to and recover from known threats and
vulnerabilities, but can also anticipate, withstand, and recover from an evolving array of threats, attacks,
and vulnerabilities borne out of emerging technologies.

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