The Convergence of Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience: Redefining Business Continuity

For more than 15 years, Superna has been at the forefront of disaster recovery innovation. With over 5 million instructed failovers executed, we’ve helped organizations safeguard their most critical data and applications in the face of natural disasters, site outages, and operational failures.

But the definition of “business continuity” is changing. In today’s world, cyber resilience (CR) is no longer optional—it is the most probable continuity event that organizations will face. And this shift is blurring the lines between traditional disaster recovery (DR) and cyber resilience (CR).

Why the Odds Favor Cyber Events Over Traditional DR

Historically, DR planning assumed events like fires, floods, or regional outages. But the probability of a true site-level disaster event is relatively rare.

Compare that to cybersecurity incidents—ransomware, insider threats, and data breaches—which dominate headlines and regulatory disclosures worldwide. Public breach statistics show:

– A large-scale natural disaster DR event might occur for a business once in decades.
– A cyber resilience event (breach, ransomware, or insider compromise) now has a probability rate dozens of times higher.

Illustrative comparison (assumptions based on industry data):
– Probability of a DR event for a typical enterprise in a given year: ~0.5% (1 in 200).
– Probability of a cyber event causing business disruption: ~20–25% (1 in 4–5).

That means a cyber resilience event is 40–50 times more likely to occur than a full-scale DR event.

Why Traditional DR Alone Falls Short

Even when DR is activated, many customers find they lack the compute and network infrastructure at the DR site to operate their business in full production mode. DR plans look good on paper but often fail in practice.

Meanwhile, cyberattacks don’t require a secondary site outage—they exploit the live production environment, encrypting, exfiltrating, or corrupting data where it resides. Protecting against this requires proactive cyber resilience, not just reactive failover.

Superna: A Cyber-First Approach to Business Continuity

Because of our dual leadership—DR automation and the Cyberstorage Gartner category—Superna is uniquely positioned to redefine business continuity:

– Disaster Recovery: Proven leadership with millions of successful failovers.
– Data Security Edition: Automated cyber detection, isolation, and response.
– Smart Airgap: Immutable protection against ransomware and insider attacks.
– Cross-Platform Leadership: Only Superna delivers unified DR and CR runbooks across the broadest range of enterprise storage platforms.

With simulated DR and cyberattack capabilities, we give customers the confidence that their plans will work when needed. And with the largest ecosystem of integration partners, we streamline both DR monitoring and security incident response, ensuring faster and more coordinated action when continuity is at risk.

The Next Generation of Business Continuity

The convergence of DR and CR transforms continuity planning:
– From legacy backup-centric thinking—where backup software was wrongly treated as a security layer—
– To threat-aware architectures that focus on prevention, resilience, and automated response.

Legacy solutions were designed for recovery after failure, not for modern offensive security realities. Today’s business continuity requires a continuous threat evaluation and response architecture, where attacks are detected, isolated, and remediated in real time—before they cascade into outages.

This is Business Cyber Continuity—where continuity is measured not just in uptime after a storm, but in resilience against the relentless pace of cyber threats.

Sidebar: Legacy Backup vs Business Cyber Continuity

Call to Action

At Superna, we believe continuity strategies must prioritize cyber resilience, with disaster recovery as an essential—but secondary—component.

Let’s talk about how we can take your organization on this journey. Together, we’ll design a next-generation business cyber continuity solution that protects you from the threats that are most likely to strike, while still ensuring traditional DR preparedness.