Cyber Resilience vs Implementation Complexity

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CyberTRIZ analysis · Pharma contradiction CS014 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI

Regulations

EU_GDPR ISO_31700 ISO_27001 EU_NIS2 ISAE_3402

Business Context

Comprehensive cyber resilience programs incorporate redundant infrastructure, disaster recovery capabilities, backup systems, incident response planning, continuous monitoring, employee awareness, and recovery testing. These capabilities significantly improve organizational resilience against cyber threats. Implementing multiple resilience mechanisms simultaneously increases organizational complexity, governance requirements, training needs, and operational coordination.

The Contradiction

Greater cyber resilience improves organizational protection. Greater resilience capabilities increase implementation complexity.

Why It Exists

Organizations frequently implement cybersecurity initiatives independently without establishing an integrated enterprise resilience strategy. Multiple overlapping technologies and procedures may create unnecessary complexity while reducing overall effectiveness.

Applying Pharmatriz

Cyber resilience should be designed as a coordinated enterprise capability integrating Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, cybersecurity governance, validation, and risk management into a unified operational framework.

Solution Directions

TRIZ principles applied

P05 MergingP26 CopyingP02 Taking Out (Extraction)

Controls that address this (22)

EU_GDPR-CTRL-001 - Daily safeguarding reconciliationoperational · critical priority · Daily reconciliation between safeguarded customer balances, core ledger balances and safeguarded bank accounts. Variances above EUR 100 must EU_GDPR-CTRL-002 - Critical ICT incident reportingoperational · critical priority · All major ICT incidents impacting payment services, customer data or availability must be classified within 4 hours and reported under DORA EU_GDPR-CTRL-003 - GDPR breach notification workflowoperational · critical priority · Personal data breaches must be assessed within 12 hours and reported to the Belgian DPA within 72 hours where risk to data subjects exists.