Resilience

Digital transformation opens up enormous opportunities for competitiveness and social progress – it also creates new vulnerabilities. These arise from our growing dependence on networked infrastructures. Disruptions can have many causes, including software errors, hardware failures, sabotage, and climate-related disasters. Their consequences range from paralyzed business processes and interrupted critical services to the destabilization of entire socio-technical networks – with significant economic and social impacts. For a secure, sovereign, and resilient digital future, we need IT systems that are not only robust but also continuously adapt to new threats and failures – in short, resilient systems.

Resilience is not a state, but a dynamic process.

Fraunhofer FOKUS supports companies, administrations, and politics in making IT infrastructures and applications crisis-proof and demonstrates how IT solutions can strengthen a resilient society. Our approach combines technological excellence with a deep understanding of the industry, because resilience is not a coincidence, but the result of careful preparation, prevention, rapid response, and the most autonomous restoration of functionality possible.

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What does resilience mean?

Resilience in information technology refers to the ability of systems, services, and processes to cope with disruptions, such as hardware failures, cyberattacks, outages, and peak loads, to maintain operations, or to recover quickly and in a controlled manner.

What promotes resilience from a technical perspective?

• Decentralization and redundancy
• Dynamic reconfiguration
• Autonomous error detection and correction
• Protection against cyberattacks and physical threats
• Vendor independence, open source, digital sovereignty
• Monitoring to detect overloads at an early stage.

^{How can digitalization make society more resilient?}

IT systems must be designed to be resilient. At the same time, digitalization strengthens the resilience of individuals and society as a whole. In times of climate change, digitalization can, for example, help to predict events and better understand risks based on data analysis. The coronavirus warning app during the pandemic is another example of how IT has strengthened society's resilience.