Resilience Debt: The Silent Risk Undermining Cyber Recovery
Dell, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Resilience debt is growing silently - until it breaks recovery. Why confidence, not attacks, may be your biggest cyber risk.
Many organizations are accumulating *resilience debt* - a hidden gap between perceived and actual recovery readiness. Without frequent testing, validated backups, and cyber vaulting, confidence collapses when recovery matters most.
Organizations have spent the last decade strengthening prevention capabilities - deploying advanced firewalls, endpoint protections, identity controls, and now AI-powered threat detection. But even as security stacks grow more sophisticated, a subtle yet dangerous gap continues to widen beneath the surface. It's a gap between what organizations believe they can recover from and what they can actually recover from. That gap has a cost. And like all unaddressed liabilities, it compounds over time.