In Asia's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for robust digital resilience has become paramount as the region grapples with a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (VUCA), often characterised by a combination of technological disruptions, geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainties.
Organisations and governments must be equipped to withstand adapt and recover from these digital shocks. Digital resilience or the ability to maintain business continuity and secure critical infrastructure in the face of cyber threats and system failures is a crucial enabler of sustainable growth in Asia's digital economy.
Vishal Ghariwala, senior director and CTO for Asia Pacific at SUSE says digital resilience essentially is the ability of an organisation to adapt, respond to and maintain its critical infrastructure services and critical operations. He adds that resilience is being able to withstand these disruptions which could be coming from cyber threats or other types of disruptions.
For a non-IT person, he comments, digital resilience “means that whatever operations you're doing digitally or transactions you're doing digitally, (these are) able to continue and they are not disrupted.
He points out that in today’s economy, almost all transactions have a component that is performed in the digital realm or have a component that is digitally performed. This is a stark contrast to the past (possibly pre-COVID-pandemic) where many of the transactions were done physically.
“It is very important that the technology that is supporting a lot of these digital applications is resilient because if they go down, you will not be able to access the services."
Vishal Ghariwala
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