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Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience: Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.

This article reports on the paired objectives of cyber efficiency and cyber resilience in evaluating how successful a digital system will be in accomplishing its functions, where efficiency in this context is defined as the ability to function successfully without waste and resilience is the ability...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 33 - 38
Main Authors: Linkov, Igor, Ligo, Alexandre, Stoddard, Kelsey, Perez, Beatrice, Strelzoff, Andrew, Bellini, Emanuele, Kott, Alexander
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2023
Subjects:
Computer systems
Cyber physical systems
Ransomware
NHS England
Computer performance
Computer reliability
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article reports on the paired objectives of cyber efficiency and cyber resilience in evaluating how successful a digital system will be in accomplishing its functions, where efficiency in this context is defined as the ability to function successfully without waste and resilience is the ability of a system to deal with disruptive events. Topics include the interplay between cyber efficiency and cyber resilience, with a look at both short-term efficiency and long-term efficiency, and an illustration of these objectives looking at the WannaCry ransomware and the National Health Service in England. [EPC]