Disaster Recovery (DR)

Overview

Disaster recovery addresses events that make normal systems, facilities, people, credentials, or data unavailable. Examples include cyberattacks, infrastructure failure, lost signing devices, regional outages, corrupted databases, compromised keys, or the failure of an essential service provider.

Recovery must restore more than application access. Teams may need to reconstruct balances, reestablish signing authority, validate addresses, replace infrastructure, reconcile pending transactions, rotate secrets, and communicate controlled status changes. Recovery objectives should distinguish acceptable data loss from acceptable service downtime.

A reliable program defines critical services, dependencies, recovery priorities, responsible roles, backup locations, alternate signers, communication channels, and evidence requirements. Procedures should be tested through realistic exercises and updated after system changes. Restored systems must be verified before transaction authority resumes, because rapid but unvalidated recovery can repeat or amplify the original incident.

Disaster recovery is the coordinated process for restoring wallet, custody, treasury, and supporting operations after a severe disruption or loss event. Effective handling of Disaster Recovery (DR) connects detection, triage, preservation, containment, eradication, recovery, communication, regulatory assessment, and lessons learned through one auditable timeline. Disaster Recovery (DR) should distinguish an alert, suspected event, confirmed incident, material impact, and restored service because each state requires different decisions and notifications. Disaster recovery must restore verified control, records, and transaction capability, not merely bring an application back online.

A production treatment of Disaster Recovery (DR) should test the coordinated process for restoring wallet, custody, treasury, and supporting operations after a severe disruption or loss event within the relevant asset, decision, or service state. The Disaster Recovery context record for coordinated process for restoring wallet, custody, and treasury should preserve source data, configuration or policy version, responsible actor, exception, and outcome. Review of Disaster Recovery (DR) should determine whether safeguards addressing coordinated process for restoring wallet, custody, and treasury changed exposure in practice, not merely whether a document or setting existed.