The Cyber Resilience Gap: Why Confidence Outpaces Capability
Dell, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Most claim cyber resilience. Few can recover. Real readiness is exposed under pressure through tested recovery and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Confidence outpaces capability: Many organizations believe they're cyber resilient, but few have proven they can recover quickly and reliably.
- Recovery is the real gap: Backups, dependencies, and recovery plans often exist-but aren't tested under realistic conditions.
- Resilience is a leadership discipline: Closing the gap requires business alignment, executive ownership, and continuous recovery validation.
Recently, John Scimone wrote about a growing confidence-capability gap in cyber resilience-the idea that many organizations feel prepared for a cyber event, but far fewer can prove they're ready to recover. That observation aligns closely with what I'm seeing in the field.