Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery under a Zero Trust model ensures that recovery procedures themselves do not reintroduce the implicit-trust assumptions that Zero Trust eliminates — requiring that backup systems, recovery credentials, and restoration workflows are subject to the same identity verification and least-privilege controls as production environments. Ransomware actors now routinely target backup infrastructure first, making Zero Trust-hardened BCDR a mandatory control for cyber insurance qualification and frameworks including DORA and NIST 800-34.
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