The European Space Agency (ESA) has published details about the UK’s National PNT Digital Twin Environment (UPDATE) project, which it is providing funding for.
Resilience by design
Resilience by design is a proactive approach to creating systems, organizations, infrastructure, and communities that can withstand and adapt to disruptions, shocks, and stressors. It involves integrating resilience principles into the design phase rather than relying on reacting to crises after they occur.
Key concepts of resilience by design include:
Anticipation & preparedness – Identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities early and designing solutions to mitigate them.
Flexibility & adaptability – Ensuring systems can adjust and evolve in response to changing conditions.
Redundancy & diversity – Building in backup options to maintain functionality even when certain components fail.
Robustness & durability – Creating structures and processes that can endure shocks without significant breakdowns.
Decentralization & self-sufficiency – Reducing reliance on a single point of failure by distributing resources and responsibilities.
Learning & continuous improvement – Using past failures and successes to refine strategies over time.
Terry Storrar explores why scaling IT resilience requires a fundamental shift in system design, taking a layered approach and designing workflows that can withstand partial failure.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released a new publication series on modern defensible architecture, ‘aimed at providing organizations with a clear pathway for investment and implementation’.
There has been a lot of focus on operational resilience over the past couple of years but this misses some essential aspects of resilience; building resilience by design and the need to focus on people resilience.
A new paper by BSI and CBRE provides guidance on how to plan and build data centers / centres which are future-proof, sustainable, resilient, and secure.
Andy Weir presents three approaches to prevent software bugs and improve quality, security, and speed of delivery.