Traditional disaster recovery focuses on infrastructure failure. Cyber recovery adds a harder assumption: the production environment, normal management plane, or backup path may itself be compromised.
Patterns used in project delivery
- Separate recovery capabilities from normal production administration.
- Use backup, vault, and isolated recovery zones for different failure modes.
- Define which services must be recoverable first.
- Document access, dependencies, and validation for the isolated environment.
- Test the recovery path rather than treating the design as proof.
This note draws on client-confidential backup, replication, and isolated-recovery case studies.