Cloud Resilience Posture Management: The CSPM Model Applied to Disaster Recovery

In March 2026, a significant cyberattack on Stryker disrupted global operations, highlighting a critical gap in disaster recovery (DR) strategies, which have traditionally focused on data loss rather than infrastructure collapse. The DR industry, valued at $20 billion, has been addressing the wrong problem by prioritizing databases, storage, and server images over crucial infrastructure components like VPC configurations, security groups, and load balancers. This misalignment became evident during the AWS us-east-1 outage, which affected over 1,000 companies due to infrastructure failures rather than data loss. Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM), introduced by Firefly, aims to rectify this by applying continuous scanning, quantified posture scoring, and automated enforcement to recovery readiness. CRPM's approach includes six key capabilities such as unified inventory, continuous backup validation, resilience scoring, automated policy enforcement, drift detection, and shift-left resilience in CI/CD, ultimately transforming recovery into redeployment by continuously syncing the live cloud state with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Despite the critical need for infrastructure-level recovery, only a small percentage of organizations have implemented such measures, with many teams lacking formal DR plans altogether. As cloud providers accelerate their release cycles, the gap between infrastructure complexity and recovery readiness widens, necessitating a shift towards measurable and enforceable resilience strategies.