We're taking a resilient approach to cybersecurity and IT operations this month with articles that focus on how to combine and master the two. First, Sean Tilley, Senior Sales Director at 11:11 Systems, explains the importance of integrating data protection and cyber resilience in our ever-evolving IT landscape. For Sean it's no longer enough to prioritise one over the other: "As reliance on data to fuel analytics, engineering, marketing, and other key operations increases, the complexity surrounding IT infrastructure grows in tandem... Meanwhile, the rise in sophisticated cyberattacks, compounded by escalating cyber insurance costs, pressure to drive down operational costs and the need for 24/7 uptime, calls for stronger defences, and smarter, faster recovery strategies."

Operational resilience and the need for IT teams to have observability across cloud-native, on-premise and hybrid technology stacks is also central to SolarWinds Tech Evangelist Sascha Giese's article this month. "Operational resilience isn't just about preventing incidents; it's about ensuring continuity when incidents occur," he explains. "Operational resilience means preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disruptions without derailing the systems in the process. It's the difference between reacting and adapting, between downtime and performance, between falling back and moving forward."

Operational resilience could prove crucial at a time when many organisations are reassessing their approach to digital infrastructure, according to Pulsant's Rob Coupland. Rob's article in this issue explores the potential benefits and pitfalls of data repatriation from the public cloud, and how "Moving data back into private cloud, on-prem or colocation provides predictable pricing vs. fluctuating cloud bills, better performance and latency by being closer to users, and greater resilience by diversifying the type and number of infrastructure providers on which their businesses sit." Well it wouldn't be a UK summer without a little cloud talk after all.

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