Sustaining trust with cyber resilience planning

Max Envoy
2 min readAug 11, 2018

Organisations must bake-in security and compliance to their businesses, to maintain the trust of customers, donors, staff, partners and volunteers.

The need for good governance isn’t going away.

The need for robust controls and governance over access to data and other assets remains. Industry enthusiasm for a burgeoning digital economy and the ‘digital first’ sentiment running through most organisations can easily drown-out the voices of those concerned with security.

Sustaining trust is your top priority, calculate the cost of losing customer-trust.

Building and sustaining trust remains a key issue. To support your efforts a clear understanding of the immediate cyber security threats and risks relative to your business context are a necessity.

Planning digital strategies and making decisions without knowledge of the future costs of breaches or the overall impact a cyber security breach could have, seriously threatens the credibility of your organisation and its trusted status.

Trust, privacy and resilience must feature in your business strategy.

Effective and pragmatic cyber resilience strategies have, at their core, the alignment to your organisational aims. Inherent to those aims is an ever present need to build and sustain trust.

Trust is the jewel in the crown of business strategy, enabled by a coherent and actionable cyber resilience strategy.

Does you strategy account for how you will build and sustain a lasting trust?

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Max Envoy
Max Envoy

Written by Max Envoy

Professional advisor to gov and industry, creator, amateur father. I write original content about business, strategy, innovation, technology and success making.

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