"The 'touch grass' movement has seen users move offline and seek a more balanced, grounded reality, and it would seem the cybersecurity sector is experiencing a similar backlash. The increasing emphasis on resilience and the ability to get back to 'business as usual' (BAU) means that organizations are now looking to create airgaps and recovery mechanisms that are not totally dependent upon 'always on' connectivity."
"That saw Heathrow and other European airports resort to pen and paper when boarding passengers for at least three days, but it's a practice that's not unusual in the aviation sector. The failure of the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) En Route flight planning system back in 2023 saw 2,000 flights cancelled, with paper-based contingency planning enabling 60 plans to be processed per hour, allowing some service to be maintained."
Organizations are prioritizing resilience and the ability to recover to business-as-usual without continuous connectivity. Governments have urged chief executives to keep paper copies of incident recovery plans. The NCSC stressed the need for plans to continue operations without IT and to rebuild IT at pace. Airports have reverted to pen-and-paper procedures during system attacks, and NATS contingency planning processed limited workloads by paper during outages. Enterprises are repatriating data from public clouds to in-house systems over sovereignty, risk, cost, compliance, and security concerns. A hybrid approach is emerging to balance cloud benefits with tangible offline recovery mechanisms.
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