The takeaways
- Only 6% of organisations feel very capable of withstanding cyberattacks across all vulnerabilities — resilience is now the critical enabler of confident transformation.
- Organisations are migrating to cloud faster than they're maturing. The gap between ambition and readiness is where disruption hits hardest.
- Resilience by design means embedding resilience into architecture from day one, not retrofitting after an incident exposes what's missing.
Why does resilience matter?
The greater your confidence in your capacity for resilience—enduring and bouncing back from challenges—the quicker you’ll be able to adapt and drive transformation. Increasingly, this means building integrated resilience: aligning technology, cyber, operational, regulatory, and supply chain capabilities so you can move faster with confidence.
And as the threats escalate, so does the critical importance of resilience.
Reliance on third-party cloud services and the need to run advanced systems alongside legacy infrastructure are heightening the dangers of operational interruption and failure.
“Cloud is no longer just an enabler of transformation; it’s the foundation on which resilience is built. Organisations that design resilience into their cloud strategy from day one move faster with confidence, because they know they can absorb disruption, protect trust, and keep reinventing at pace.”
Sebastian Paas, Partner, EMEA Cloud Transformation Leader, PwC GermanyIn turn, cyber threats are growing in scale and sophistication across an ever larger and more exposed cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) attack surface.
Reactive fixes are no longer enough to deal with this fast-shifting risk environment. By moving to proactive ‘resilience by design’, you’ll be able to step up the pace and scale of AI innovation and business model reinvention, knowing that you can anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and rapidly recover from disruption.
“Resilience can no longer be bolted on after an incident or layered over fragile legacy systems as an afterthought. Every architectural decision, migration plan, and new service design needs to be evaluated through a resilience lens.”
James Rashleigh, Partner, EMEA Cyber Leader, PwC UKReady to accelerate transformation with confidence?
The organisations moving fastest are the ones building resilience in from the start, across technology, cyber, operations, regulation and supply chains.
About the authors
Prepare, respond, and emerge stronger
PwC’s Global Centre for Crisis and Resilience