The days of simple, perimeter-based defenses are over. Recent high-profile outages and ransomware events show that it only takes a single point of failure — whether a third-party vendor or a botched software update — to cascade into billions of dollars in losses, massive data breaches, and irreparable brand damage. Today’s threat landscape is all about how well you manage the inherent brittleness of our complex, interdependent digital infrastructure.

This whitepaper, developed by MIT Technology Review Insights in partnership with Hitachi Vantara, offers a blueprint for moving beyond a reactive, post-incident posture. It provides a strategic framework for building organization-wide resilience while leveraging the latest technologies and methodologies to protect your data and minimize downtime. You will:

• Understand how the proliferation of interconnected systems and supply chain dependencies has created a wider, more vulnerable attack surface.
• Find out how threat actors are using AI to make their attacks more sophisticated, and how you can leverage AI for defense and remediation.
• Learn to shift your mindset from a traditional "detect and respond" model to a proactive, preventative approach focused on continuous resilience.
• Discover the importance of a business-wide strategy that integrates security, risk management, and operational best practices, not just isolated tech solutions.
• Get insights into a layered approach for data protection, including replication, robust backup strategies, and strong data security protocols.