Cyber Resiliency Automation Using Blockchain

Protecting organization assets from malicious attack is key to an organization business continuity goal. Most of the organizations are aware of security threats and have invested time and effort in defining a security strategy. The security strategy identifies the technology, policies, people and the processes required to deal with security breaches. However cyber incidents continue to rise and often attackers find new ways to cause damage. Since its difficult to prevent cyberattacks the focus should be more on how to respond and recover quickly from attacks. The cyber resilient approach must be based on the latest threats and needs continuous improvement. Often organizations feel that they have a cyber resilience process that works but during an attack they struggle to recover. This is mainly due to the fact that the process has many pitfalls and is not up to date. This paper briefly discusses some of the drawbacks in the processes and suggests a process utilizing blockchain which provides better security and ability to recover. © 2019 IEEE