The changing contours of conflicts, wars, and crises after the end of the Cold War opened the door for broader security concerns including an extending and reformulating of the concept of security itself. Nowadays, terrorism and other security threats can be characterized as “wicked” transboundary, multi-level governance challengers crossing the borders between countries, policy sectors and administrative levels of government. Since such security problems entail new areas of obligation and cooperation between organizations, scholars have argued for a new definition of security that correspond to organizations` current security responsibility. The striking element of this new definition is that it strongly overlaps with many important elements of the definition of resilience. Resilience management constitutes a strategy to meet a multiplicity of threats, in particular the unforeseen and potential surprises. Many safety and risk scholars call for a shift to resilience, and considerable resources are devoted to the development of methods and models for supporting resilience analysis and management – but is this shift also applicable to the area of security? This paper discusses the importance of including and exploring the uncertainty dimension in security planning. Since decisions regarding security issues are associated with a highly uncertain future, we argue that the security field would benefit from incorporating elements from resilience perspectives. Traditional risk assessment methods seek to harden a vulnerable component of a system based upon a snapshot in time, while resilience analysis offer a ‘soft landing’ for the system at hand. As such, resilience perspectives offer an approach that are more in line with the current threat landscape. Consequently, resilience approaches propose relevant perspectives to security research. Nevertheless, resilience perspectives lack a unified definition, a framework for identifying the feature of social units that make them resilient and adequate practical tools for designing resilience. Furthermore, there are specific characteristics with the area of security that might make a resilience approach a counterproductive future route for security studies.