Assessment 03 · Resilience

Industrial Resilience & Recoverability Assessment

Evaluate whether critical industrial technology can actually recover from infrastructure, database, application, integration or site-level failure — not just whether backups and redundancy exist on paper.

Core questionIf a critical component fails, do you know what recovers, how long it takes, and what evidence proves it?

What we examine

Focused enough to act on.

The exact scope is shaped during pre-engagement. The assessment is designed around the operating question, not a fixed technology checklist.

  • Backup scope, frequency, ownership, retention and restore dependencies
  • Application, database, VM, network, storage, identity, certificate and integration dependencies
  • Redundancy and failover design for critical services
  • RPO/RTO assumptions and whether they match operational reality
  • Restore procedures, runbooks, credentials, software/media dependencies and test evidence
  • Critical recovery sequences and hidden single points of failure

What you receive

Decision-ready outputs.

Deliverables help leadership, engineering, operations and technology teams agree on the current state and the next move.

01Dependency map

What recovery actually depends on, including the undocumented parts.

02Coverage findings

Where backup and redundancy hold, and where they do not.

03RPO/RTO review

Stated assumptions tested against operational reality.

04Risk register

Restore-readiness and failover risk, ranked by operational impact.

05Validation roadmap

Prioritized recovery validation and remediation actions.

When this is useful

Common signals.

These patterns indicate where the assessment is likely to pay for itself.

  • Backups exist but restores are rarely tested
  • Redundant systems still depend on shared infrastructure
  • Recovery knowledge is concentrated in a few individuals
  • Database or VM failover behavior is unclear
  • Plant startup after outage requires manual guesswork
  • Leadership cannot confidently state realistic RPO/RTO

What happens next

Replace recovery assumptions with recovery evidence.

An assessment can stand alone or become the baseline for architecture, remediation, implementation, training or ongoing assurance.