Cyber Resilience: The Elephant in the Room (Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks)

Cyber Resilience is not just another cybersecurity book.It is the first to confront the Elephant in the Room: our current approach is failing, it is not adding value, and we all know it.We romanticize attackers as “highly sophisticated nation-states,” but let’s be real: they aren’t winning because they are sophisticated.They are winning because of our bureaucratic, self-inflicted chaos.While attackers have “kill chains”, we have compliance checklists and colored heat maps that offer a false sense of security-what this book exposes as Risk Astrology.We keep building, layering, integrating, and patching, yet we remain fragile.Attackers simply follow the breadcrumbs we leave on the Internet.Why? Because we ignore the real problems: human factors, cultural blind spots, and the systemic interdependencies that management and compliance frameworks miss.This is not about more paperwork or headcount. It is about building resilience into the DNA of your existing organization.Cyber Resilience is