Cyber Resilience, Explained: What My First Year Taught Me
Dell, Friday, November 6th, 2026
A Dell marketer explains how cyber resilience differs from cybersecurity and data protection, stressing testing and recovery.
A Dell product marketer reflects on a first year in cyber resilience, defining it as helping organizations prepare for attacks, limit their impact, and recover trusted operations.
Cybersecurity reduces and detects threats and data protection safeguards data, while cyber resilience ties them to response, recovery, business continuity, and testing.
Dell's 2026 Cyber Resilience Insights Report found 99.5% of surveyed IT decision-makers had a strategy, yet 63% believed leadership overestimated readiness, and CrowdStrike reported an 89% rise in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries.
The piece argues for simplicity, citing the Dell PowerProtect One launch, and for tailoring resilience to each organization's needs.