What is Resilience Operations?

Resilience Operations (ResOps) is the next evolution of enterprise resilience – unifying cyber recovery, identity resilience, and data security into a continuous, automated system that keeps your business running, no matter what.

In today’s hybrid, multi-cloud world, disruption is a constant threat. Ransomware, outages, and AI-enabled threats can cripple operations in seconds. ResOps transforms how enterprises respond – from reactive recovery to proactive, business continuity and resilience.

Traditional disaster recovery starts after something breaks. Resilience Operations helps prevent critical systems from stopping in the first place.

It’s a modern operating model that integrates protection, detection, and recovery across the enterprise – closing the gaps between IT, security, and identity management. With ResOps, data isn’t just backed up; it’s monitored, tested, and recoverable with integrity and speed.

In short: ResOps enables your organization to maintain business continuity during cyberattacks, outages, and AI-driven disruptions – not just recover afterward.

The world has shifted from fragile systems to AI-enabled operations that demand trust, speed, and autonomy. Yet most organizations still operate with fragmented tools and siloed teams – that can slow down response and increase risk.

The result: a widening resilience gap – the distance between how fast technology evolves and how slowly most enterprises can respond when something goes wrong.

ResOps helps bridge that gap by uniting data protection, detection, and recovery into one continuous loop for enterprise business continuity.

ResOps operates as a closed-loop system that enable continuous business through four integrated functions:

1. Discover & protect: Know what data you have, where it resides, and how it’s being used. Automate governance, classification, and protection at creation – helping keep data trustworthy throughout its lifecycle.
2. Detect: Continuous observation of data, users, and machine identities for anomalies. AI-enabled detection helps identify suspicious changes before they cascade into downtime.
3. Recover: Move beyond “restore” to rapid, clean recovery. Automated orchestration can rebuild critical systems with integrity to help prevent reintroduction of compromised data.
4. Continuous business: Feed safe, governed, and verified data back into production and AI systems. ResOps helps close the loop – enabling uninterrupted operations even during disruption.

From foundational governance to adaptive continuous recovery, ResOps builds on applying five essential pillars:

• Governance & strategy: Clear ownership and unified policies across all environments.
• Risk & control environment: Proactive testing and mitigation of risks to critical services.
• Change management: Embedding resilience into every application, update, and deployment.
• Information & communication: Transparent coordination across teams and stakeholders.
• Business continuity & IT resilience: Automated backups, failover, and cleanroom recovery.

AI changes the very nature of resilience. Decisions occur in milliseconds, machine identities multiply, and data pipelines become both assets and attack surfaces. ResOps extends resilience into this new world – enabling AI you can trust.

In the AI era, ResOps delivers:

• Trusted data: Continuous validation confirms models run on clean, governed data.
• Unified protection: Data, identity, and recovery operate under one intelligent platform.
• Operational trust: Continuous monitoring and testing can protect against poisoned data, identity compromise, and cascading AI errors.

Commvault helps enterprises operationalize ResOps through a unified cloud platform that can connect data protection, cyber recovery, and AI-enabled automation.

What sets Commvault apart:

• Unified data protection: One console for all workloads across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS.
• AI-enabled defense: Helps detect anomalies before they disrupt operations.
• Cleanroom Recovery™: Restore in isolated environments designed to help provide a malware-free recovery.
• Automated testing: Allows for validation of recoverability on an ongoing basis – no surprises when it matters most.

The Future of ResOps

As resilience evolves, three trends are defining what’s next:

• Predictive resilience: AI models can forecast vulnerabilities and recovery risks before failures occur.
• Zero-click recovery: Autonomous systems can detect, validate, and recover without human intervention.
• Cloud-native protection: ResOps can extend resilience to containers, serverless functions, and distributed edge systems.

Enterprises that treat resilience as a continuous program – not a one-time project – can gain a lasting competitive advantage.