Understanding Resilience: Looking at Frameworks & Standards - A Systematic Study from Cyber Perspective

Abstract

Resilience as a system attribute and concept has gained importance and relevance in recent years as the world becomes more complex and interdependent. Most of our so-called critical infrastructures require strong IT support and infrastructure, and our reliance on their continuous availability and quality of service, makes them significant, as even short outages might cause dramatic economic losses. The systems must able to cope up with unexpected disturbances and compensate for them adequately, thereby being resilient. We found that the term resilience is being used in vastly different fields ranging from social sciences, ecology, or economics to engineering disciplines. As a first step toward understanding resilience, its notions and contexts, how such systems can be built and so on, we conducted a systematic study from cyber perspective. In this paper we provide our methodology, brief highlights, excerpts, and inferences specifically on frameworks and standards, we drew from from our study.