Cyber Resilience Enabled by Endogenous Safety and Security: Vision, Techniques, and Strategies

Cyber resiliency engineering is a technical approach embraced by countries and regions such as the United States and Europe to implement digital transformation and address network security challenges under new circumstances. It aims to keep the barriers to entry high for digital technologies based on the cyber resilience standard and to improve the digital infrastructure security capability of China from both the application service and device supply sides. This study focuses on the impact and challenges brought by the initiatives of cyber resiliency engineering in the United States and Europe on the development of new-generation network information technology in China. It starts from a concept introduction of resilience, cyber resilience, and cyber resiliency engineering. Subsequently, it elaborates on the application progress of cyber resiliency engineering in the United States and Europe in terms of policy drivers, strategic considerations, and development dilemmas. Moreover, the study goes further to propose a dynamic heterogeneous redundancy architecture based on an endogenous security and safety (ESS) theory. It describes and illustrates the intrinsic mechanism, basic concepts, and application methods of cyber resilience empowered by ESS. Furthermore, we propose that China should accelerate innovation to offset the combined effects of cyber resiliency engineering in developed countries, introduce a cyber resilience policy and law system with Chinese characteristics, establish corresponding regulatory systems to clarify the network security responsibilities, establish a quantifiable, verifiable, and credible testing and evaluation system, and boost the holistic implementation of cyber resilience with a multi-pronged approach including financial marketization, hoping to ystematically enhance the cyber resilience and strength of China.