Source: SiliconANGLE
The shift from viewing cybersecurity as IT overhead to treating it as a distinct capital allocation decision reflects a hard financial reality: the average cost of downtime now reaches $19M per hour, making resilience infrastructure a direct profit-protection play rather than a cost center. This creates immediate opportunities for specialized vendors and managed service providers while forcing traditional enterprise software and infrastructure companies to either acquire resilience capabilities or cede customer relationships to pure-play competitors who speak the language of uptime economics rather than vulnerability patches.