Who cares what it means? Practical reasons for using the word resilience with critical infrastructure operators

Resilience: a highly debated term, with what seems to be an endless amount of slightly varied definitions depending on the sector, domain, or researcher who is addressing the topic, mainly boils down to rebounding after a crisis. For critical infrastructure (CI), the EU-funded H2020 IMPROVER project used the following definition: “the ability of a CI system exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a...