When organizations talk about breach incidents, the conversation almost always centers on how the attacker got in and, while that makes sense, it’s also incomplete. Attackers assume breach is inevitable. Resilience is about assuming; containment is not. In this blog post, I’ll discuss reframing cyber resilience away from just perimeter defense or business continuity and more toward controlling the blast radius because the difference between an incident and a crisis is almost always lateral movement. When every control technically worked, alerts fired, and playbooks ran, and the business still went offline, the question arises: What happened? Most breaches don’t fail security audits; they fail operational resilience and control. No board presentation ever starts with “We were compromised.” They all start with “Customers were impacted.” Assume that a breach is only a matter of time What cyber resiliency allows you to do is take the hit but keep moving forward.…