23 Oct Africa: Shifting From Cyber ‘Security’ To Cyber ‘Resilience’
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Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 23, 2025
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Experts who spoke at the Cyber Security Summit 2025, hosted by SNG Grant Thornton this week in Johannesburg, urged a shift in focus from cybersecurity to cyber resilience as Africa’s expanding threat landscape continues to test organisations’ readiness to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks.
The cost of cybercrime is projected – just for 2025 – to be $10.5 trillion USD, up from $3 trillion in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, which makes it the greatest economic threat of our time.
Grant Hughes, CISO at GVW Group and founder and president of the ISC2 Cape Town Chapter, said while there has never been more focus on and investment in cyber security than there is now, the situation continues to worsen, and complexity has become the norm.
“Shifting to resilience encourages us to ask better questions… we move from ‘can we get breached?’ to ‘can we recover?’” Hughes added.
He said achieving cyber resilience requires a focus on six pillars: embed security into the design; prioritise basic security controls; strengthen the human firewall; focus on readiness and incident response; secure the supply chain and vendor ecosystem; and understand the active risk profile.
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