Department Of Homeland Security: How To Build Resilient Networks

Today’s global cybersecurity threats do not allow for any perfect solutions, security expert Juliette Kayyem tells business owners.

“You’re never going to get the risk to zero,” Kayyem said. ““The goal is to minimize the risk.”

Kayyem served as President Obama’s assistant secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security and now holds a faculty spot at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Kayyem’s guide to building resilient networks and systems depends on several levels of protection and the belief that no single step toward security is successful on its own.

Firstly, Kayyem said, it’s important to have redundancies.

“You don’t want to have a single point of failure,” she said.

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