# Recovery Topology **Domain:** Resilience / Backup Architecture / Cybersecurity **Doc Type:** Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Recovery topology** is the arrangement of backups, credentials, devices, cloud accounts, administrators, communication channels and trust relationships through which a system can be reconstructed after failure or compromise. ## Attack Context An attack on recovery topology targets not only primary data but the independent copies and trusted pathways needed to restore it. Repeated compromise of local systems and cloud backups can convert redundancy into another propagation channel. ## Corpus Context The concept is named explicitly in [[journal/2026-08-21 - Cyber Terrorism Is Terrorism|Cyber Terrorism Is Terrorism]]. ## See Also [[wiki/Disaster Recovery|Disaster Recovery]], [[wiki/Operational Continuity|Operational Continuity]], [[wiki/Supply Chain Compromise|Supply Chain Compromise]]