For most of its existence, IT resilience has focused on uptime, making sure systems don’t go down, and if they do, bringing them back online as quickly as possible.
But that is only part of the equation in this modern digital era. Today IT resilience means much more.
Consider, for example, Brad Stone’s take on it. As CIO for Booz Allen Hamilton, Stone says he thinks of resilience in two dimensions: One is about enabling the business without interruption; the second is about having the ability to adjust, deal with change, and handle the unexpected.