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Are You Cyber Resilient? Five Traits That Define The Leaders Of 2025

SC Media, Monday, June 2nd, 2025

As cybercriminals and nation-state adversaries turn to increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques, including deeply buried supply-chain intrusions and AI-powered phishing campaigns, attaining total immunity against online attacks becomes ever more distant.

If 100% protection is out of reach, then what matters more is flexibility, adaptability and survival. What matters is cyber resilience, the ability to quickly bounce back from a potentially crippling information-technology outage.

"Cyber resilience mean[s] how the whole organization comes together when there is some type of interruption to that whole IT estate, whether it's a cybersecurity breach, a man-made incident or a natural disaster," says Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist and Head of Thought Leadership at LevelBlue.

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