ResOps: Resilience Operations for Cyber Recovery

ResOps: Operationalizing Resilience

Align operations, security, and infrastructure teams. Overcome disruptions, attacks, and disasters. Better yet: do it all sustainably and with proof of your ability to recover cleanly.

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>7%

Of companies can recover from a ransomware attack within a day.
Invenio IT

277 days

On average, it takes companies 204 days to discover a breach — and up to 73 more days to contain it.

Embroker

80%

Of firms say business continuity is hampered by a gap between how fast they can actually restore data and how fast they need to.

LLCBuddy

1 in 5

Only 20% of respondents describe their organization as fully prepared for outages and the required recovery.

Secureframe

The objective of ResOps is simple: survive disruption

Adding controls isn’t the answer…

… making our systems resilient is. The new era of cyber defense doesn’t reward the highest walls or loudest signals. It rewards those who come back fastest, with clean recoveries, and most repeatably. ResOps provides the blueprint.

Time is money

ResOps is the discipline that enables integrated teams to work together to restore their Minimum Viable Company in the shortest possible time. Repeatedly.

Prevention is the cure

Our goal is to help you get your systems back online. But ResOps is the cross-functional discipline that links security to operations and makes it harder for malware and malicious code to come along for the ride.

Rinse and repeat. And repeat.

Because attacks and failures will happen again and again, repeatable restoration is the key. ResOps is the playbook that makes repeatability possible, affordable, and commonplace.

Resilience Codified

Operationalize resilience with evidence

Commvault helps teams align around critical services, impact tolerances, and proof—combining posture visibility, recovery intelligence, and validated recovery workflows across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and AI.

Map critical services first

Institute a unified control plane and any-to-any workload portability to support critical services across hybrid and multi-cloud—so resilient design isn’t trapped in one silo.

Integrate SecOps into recovery

Enable bidirectional integration with SecOps tools plus orchestrated incident workflows and continuous posture assessment—so detection and recovery operate as one motion.

Validate readiness continuously

Use safe exercises, tabletop validation, and measurable Service Resilience Indicators (SRIs) to prove recovery capabilities—so teams can execute under pressure, not guess.

ResOps capabilities

Maintaining a posture of resilience you can prove

Critical services & tolerances

Define critical services, set impact tolerances, map dependencies, and prioritize resilience investment to measurable outcomes—not technical assumptions.

Creating a unified resilience control plane

ResOps pro vides a framework to help unify hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and AI-enabled environments, so posture and recoverability stay visible as systems evolve.

SRIs & MTCR evidence

ResOps provides a way to measure service resilience indicators and Mean Time to Clean Recovery using test results and telemetry—then report tolerance attainment with executive clarity.

Safe recovery workflows validated

ResOps helps operationalize safe recovery with repeatable, governed exercises and validated workflows—built to prove end-to-end recoverability without betting the business.

The need for immutable, malware-scanned copies

You need to maintain immutable, malware-scanned recovery points to protect recovery assets … but how? ResOps shows you how to leverage the latest in tooling and best practices—repeatably.

Orchestrated incident workflows

The ResOps playbook is a map that coordinates security, operations, and infrastructure with orchestrated incident workflows—creating a. bridge between business-as-usual and crisis-state execution under stress.

Choosing Commvault as Your ResOps Partner

Evidence Over Hope

Commvault Cloud enables ResOps with recovery intelligence, posture visibility, and validated workflows—so teams withstand disruption within impact tolerances, prove, and document their recoverability

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Unify resilience across hybrid change sources
Commvault provides a unified control plane across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and AI-enabled estates—enabling ResOps even when visibility is a challenge and dependencies shift.
Turn resilience into evidence
Commvault’s ResOps-enabled platform helps you define SRIs and track MTCR with continuous posture assessment and test results—then translate outcomes into board-ready reporting tied to business impact tolerances. 
Recover clean, under pressure 
The final test of resilience is a clean recovery. Commvault provides immutable, malware-scanned recovery points and controlled recovery into isolated environments—backed by validated workflows for safe recovery and clean validation.

ResOps and Zero Trust

Zero Trust has been waiting 16 years for a practice like ResOps to make one of its foundational tenets–“assume the breach”—practical and achievable. Now integrated teams can not only assume the worst … but perform their best at the same time.

The Challenge

How Do Security and Risk Leaders “Assume Breach” Without Defeatism and Budget Hurdles?

The Solution

A strategy based on breach inevitability can sound defeatist to business leaders. They may question security investments or the value of preventive costs. But in reality, it creates an honest dialog backed by real data.

The Challenge

A Posture of “Assume Breach” Can Cause Fatigue and Complacency

The Solution

The shift from "prevention" to "response" can lead to "learned helplessness" or complacency regarding basic hygiene. If a failure is assumed, teams may let critical misconfigurations fester or become overwhelmed by the perpetual vigilance required for continuous monitoring. But ResOps provides a path to constant oversight, continued resilience, and ongoing improvement without creating a scenario for burnout or overwork.

The Challenge

Is “Assume Breach” a Reactive Posture?

The Solution

Some practitioners argue that "assume breach" inadvertently pushes organizations into a perpetually reactive mode. But adopting a discipline like ResOps actually puts Assume Breach thinking on a sustainable, constantly correcting path to long-term resilience.

Start with organizational buy-in

Share the benefits and principals of ResOps with senior leaders and your peers

Evidence Over Hope: the Case for ResOps 

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Answers for ResOps questions and concerns

How do we automate resilience without losing control?

Because ResOps requires machine-speed responses to incidents, teams are questioning how to effectively implement automation for detection and recovery while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions.

How do we prove our resilience to leadership and regulators?

ResOps moves away from annual, episodic testing to continuous validation. Strategists are looking for ways to produce real-time metrics, such as “mean time to clean recovery,” rather than traditional, static KPIs.

How do we define and measure "acceptable" service degradation?

ResOps creates a central, ongoing dialog so teams can work together to define the precise impact tolerances (downtime and data loss limits) for each service, and the work towards reducing their margins.

How do we transition from asset-centric security to a service-centric view?

The “availability” discussion allows strategists need to move their organizations from protecting individual assets to ensuring the availability of critical business services—ResOps provides a framework all stakeholders can share.

How do we bridge the cultural gap between security, IT, and recovery teams?

A core challenge is breaking down the siloes where security focuses on prevention, while IT ops focuses on restoration. ResOps requires a unified operating discipline that these disparate teams may resist

What does "clean recovery" mean in the context of ransomware?

ResOps offers a framework to define processes restore that services without re-introducing malicious actors or corrupted data, specifically by validating data integrity before data or configurations return to production.

How does ResOps fit SecOps? 

Security detects and contains; ResOps validates recovery when defenses fail. ResOps aligns operations, security, and infrastructure around orchestrated incident workflows, bidirectional SecOps integrations, and a unified view of resilience posture—so recovery decisions stay fast, controlled, and evidence-led.