Instances where a software system's security defenses, backup protocols, or operational safeguards fail to prevent a cyber attack, data breach, or service disruption.

Used by cybersecurity consultants to describe a company getting hacked or infected with malware, using clinical academic phrasing to soften the embarrassment of a security failure.

• Embarrassment Softening: Using clinical academic language ("cyber-resilience failure") to describe getting hacked or falling for a phishing email.
• Corporate Gravity: Wrapping basic security breaches in high-level risk management vocabulary.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like leaving a window unlocked, getting burgled, and calling it a "residential resilience failure."

Jurassic Park (1990s) scene where Nedry’s malicious code disables the entire park's defense system, triggering catastrophic cyber-resilience failures across security perimeters.

A security breakdown or hack that breaches a system's defenses.

“Unpatched server software exposes organizations to costly cyber-resilience failures.”

“Our company suffered a security breach last night because an employee clicked a phishing link, exposing our team to a major system hack.”