DR Testing Is Dead: The Rise of Continuous Resilience Validation

For decades, disaster recovery programs have been built around a familiar milestone: the DR test. A scheduled event. A defined scope. A pass/fail outcome. A report delivered to leadership. Most organizations reading this already understand the basics. They have plans. They run tests. They document results. On paper, they are “covered.” The uncomfortable truth is this: the traditional DR test no longer validates resilience. It validates preparation for a specific moment in time – under controlled conditions – while real failures happen continuously, unpredictably, and rarely according to plan. The critical decision point facing resilience leaders today is not whether…