Ideal: Identity systems should reliably recognize legitimate users and provide practical recovery methods when devices, credentials, or services become unavailable.
Focus: Identity recovery, authentication resilience, account recovery, break-glass access, continuity planning, and recovery pathways.
Central Questions:
- How does a system establish who or what is acting, under whose authority, and with what consequences? Distinguishes identity, authentication, authorization, attribution, representation, and delegated authority. A recognized identity does not automatically establish legitimate authority.
- What must remain functional when people, systems, facilities, or communication channels become unavailable?
Addresses continuity of operations, decision-making, authority transfer, succession, degraded operating modes, and the conditions under which operations should stop rather than continue unsafely.
Connects To: Human Agency, Human-Centered Security, Human Escalation Paths, Recoverability Engineering, Single Device Dependency.
Related Operational Resilience Resources
- Human Agency
- Human-Centered Security
- Human Escalation Paths
- Human-First Systems Design Series
- Identity Continuity
- Invisible Failure Analysis
- Operational Resilience Hub
- Recoverability Engineering
- Single-Device Dependency
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- Hunter Storm Official Site
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