# Identity Resilience and DR
One-sentence definition: Keep authentication/authorization available during outages and recover quickly after incidents.
## Key Facts
- Multi-region IdP; redundant DCs; tested failover and runbooks.
- Out-of-band break-glass; cached credentials strategies where safe.
- Backup signing keys and config; secure key escrow and rotation plans.
- Dependency mapping (NTP, DNS, PKI); monitor SLOs.
- **Verify:** check official (ISC)² CBK and current exam outline.
## Exam Relevance
- Choose identity DR first—no auth means no business.
**Mnemonic:** “**Auth** must **always** work.”
## Mini Scenario
Q: IdP offline during DDoS—how keep control?
A: Use CDN/DDoS protection, secondary region, and offline break-glass.
## Revision Checklist
- Two redundancy tactics.
- Key management for DR.
- Critical dependencies.
## Related
[[IdP Hardening and High Availability]] · [[Account Recovery and Break-Glass Procedures]] · [[Time Synchronization and NTP Security]] · [[MOC - CISSP]] · [[Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)]] · [[Domain 5 - Index]]