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CGRC · Question #18

The ability to quickly adapt and recover from any known or unknown changes to the environment through holistic implementation of risk management, contingency, and continuity planning. Response:

The correct answer is A. Resilience. Resilience, in the context of information systems and organizations, is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises through holistic risk management.

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Question

The ability to quickly adapt and recover from any known or unknown changes to the environment through holistic implementation of risk management, contingency, and continuity planning. Response:

Options

  • AResilience
  • BFragile
  • CInanimate
  • DSilence

How the community answered

(55 responses)
  • A
    95% (52)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)

Why each option

Resilience, in the context of information systems and organizations, is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises through holistic risk management.

AResilienceCorrect

Resilience is the property of an enterprise, system, or network to resist, absorb, recover from, or successfully adapt to adverse events or changes. It encompasses the holistic approach of risk management, contingency, and continuity planning to ensure operational robustness and rapid recovery.

BFragile

Fragile is the opposite of resilient, implying susceptibility to damage, disruption, or failure rather than the ability to adapt and recover.

CInanimate

Inanimate means not alive or lacking the qualities of life, a term unrelated to an organization's or system's capability to adapt or recover from changes.

DSilence

Silence is the absence of sound and has no relevance to the described ability of a system or organization to adapt and recover.

Concept tested: Information System Resilience

Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/resilience

Topics

#Resilience#Risk Management#Contingency Planning#Continuity Planning

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