Modern business disruption increasingly originates from cyber threats such as ransomware, identity compromises, and supplier or cloud failures, making cyber resilience the new foundation of business continuity planning. Effective continuity requires organisations to map critical processes and dependencies, integrate governance, incident response, and supplier management into a unified framework, and ensure systems can recover within agreed timeframes. Crucially, continuity plans must be regularly tested against realistic scenarios to verify they hold up under real pressure, not just on paper.
