Operational Resilience

Definitions

1. The ability of an organization to continue delivering critical services during and after disruptions such as cyberattacks, outages, third-party failures, or process breakdowns. Operational resilience is broader than disaster recovery because it focuses on sustaining important business outcomes under stress.

   In plain English: The ability to keep important operations running despite disruptions or attacks.

   Example: "The regulator cared about operational resilience, not just backups, because payment processing had to keep working during an attack."

Related Terms

• Recovery Point Objective
• Recovery Time Objective
• Availability
• Data Backup Security
• Distributed Denial of Service
• High Availability Security
• Hot Standby Security
• Jamming
• Redundancy Security
• Resource Exhaustion
• RTO
• Availability Pattern