CyberTRIZPEDIA

OT Resilience vs Cybersecurity Investment

Allocate cybersecurity budget using asset-criticality risk assessments to satisfy NIS2 resilience obligations cost-effectively.

CyberTRIZ analysis · Seveso contradiction CY020 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI

Regulations

EU_NIS2IEC_62443COSO_ERMISO_31010ISO_27001

Business Context

Building resilient OT environments requires redundant infrastructure,

secure architectures, continuous monitoring, staff training, and

incident response capabilities.

The Contradiction

Greater cybersecurity investment improves resilience.

Lower investment improves short-term financial performance.

Why It Exists

Cyber resilience programs require continuous funding, while the benefits

are often measured by incidents that never occur.

Direction

Prioritize cybersecurity investments using risk assessments, asset

criticality, and business impact analysis to maximize resilience where

it provides the greatest value.

TRIZ principles applied

P25 Self-ServiceP06 UniversalityP23 FeedbackP15 DynamicsP23 Feedback

Controls that address this (22)

EU_NIS2-CTRL-001 - Daily safeguarding reconciliationoperational · critical priority · Daily reconciliation between safeguarded customer balances, core ledger balances and safeguarded bank accounts. Variances above EUR 100 mustEU_NIS2-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_NIS2-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.