AI in Resilience • Disaster Recovery Journal

AI Is Already in Your Resilience Program. Now There’s a Framework for It.

Most resilience guidance was built for human-run, human-speed programs. That assumption no longer holds. The AI in Resilience Framework, developed by DRJ in partnership with The BCI, gives practitioners a structured way to govern AI, defend against it, and put it to work.

Publishing September 1, 2026

Launching at DRJ Fall 2026 — 75th Conference

Edition Version 1.0

Developed by DRJ in partnership with

Govern

Oversight, accountability, policy.

Governance runs through both of the other pillars. You cannot defend against AI risk or apply AI capability responsibly without it.

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01 AI governance and accountability Knowing who owns AI-driven actions before those actions occur.
02 Regulation and standards Translating emerging AI rules into resilience practice.
03 Ethics, transparency, and trust Responsible use, explainability, and the trust stakeholders place in decisions AI has shaped.

Defend

AI as a risk to manage.

This pillar treats AI as a source of risk. Some of these threats are new in kind; others are familiar threats transformed in degree.

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04 The AI-enabled threat landscape AI-augmented attacks, deepfakes, synthetic identity, and social engineering produced at scale.
05 Model and data risk Model failure, drift, poisoning, fabrication, and dependence on third-party models and data.
06 Autonomous agents as a disruption class The failure of autonomous agents, the cascading actions they trigger, and the wider blast radius they create.

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AI as a capability to use.

This pillar treats AI as a capability that strengthens resilience when used well.

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07 AI across the resilience lifecycle Business impact analysis, risk assessment, plan generation and maintenance, scenario design, and exercising.
08 AI-driven detection, response, and recovery Anomaly and ransomware detection, automated recovery workflows, and real-time operational dashboards.
09 AI in crisis management and communications Intelligent monitoring, information triage during an incident, and around-the-clock assistance.
10 Evaluating and adopting AI-enabled tooling Assessing vendor claims, building versus buying, integration, and the workforce change adoption brings.

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AI Is Already in Your Resilience Program. Now There’s a Framework for It.

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Three pillars, ten domains.

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