ResOps: The Next Era of Recovery Intelligence

This article introduces ResOps (Resilience Operations), a cross-functional discipline that shifts recovery focus from infrastructure uptime to restoring clean, trusted data. Traditional metrics like RTO and RPO are insufficient for modern cyber threats, and the author proposes Mean Time to Clean Recovery (MTCR) as a more meaningful measurement that emphasizes data integrity alongside speed. ResOps positions resilience as an ongoing operational practice rather than a reactive incident response function.