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Cyber resilience: The name of the game for 2026

Published December 2025
Read time 4 minutes
What you will learn
Protect your organization from AI-driven cybercrime as attackers use phishing, deepfakes, and ransomware at scale. Learn the necessary resilience strategies.

Delinea Resilient Secrets keeps you running when it matters most.

If there's one word that will define the security strategy in 2026, it’s resilience. No matter how strong your defenses are, something will eventually go wrong. The question is not if it will happen, but how quickly you can recover and keep the business moving when it does.

With AI now making cybercrime easier by helping even inexperienced attackers launch convincing phishing campaigns, deepfakes, and ransomware at scale, every organization is feeling the pressure. High availability and redundancy are foundational and expected. What really matters is your ability to sustain operations, maintain trust, and recover fast when the unexpected hits.

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Delinea’s Resilient Secrets exists to give you confidence that your most critical access points will stay protected and available, even when everything else fails. Overlooked misconfigurations, third-party access, or even old-fashioned human error have caused major disruptions time and time again.

Every organization is a cybercrime target

Cybercriminals are not picky. They go after anyone, from global enterprises to small startups, and they’re using AI and automation to do it. Let’s face it, smaller organizations, often seen as “low risk,” are frequently exploited and used as entry points into larger supply chains. 

Cyber Insurance Claim Metric

And while human users still draw attention, a real growth area for attackers is machine identities: the credentials and secrets used by applications, services, and bots. Many teams still treat these as ‘set it and forget it’ assets. Unfortunately, with machine identities outnumbering humans by an absurd number, they are easy and expanding targets.

Even mature organizations can find themselves locked out when something goes wrong. A cloud provider outage, a bad software update, or even a natural disaster can suddenly take your PAM solution offline. When that happens, regaining access to your own environment becomes the hardest part of recovery, slowing response times, extending downtime, and putting your business and reputation on the line.

That’s the gap Resilient Secrets is designed to close.

Resilient Secrets: Your safety net on your worst day

Delinea's Resilient Secrets gives you an escape plan and peace of mind. It keeps your privileged credentials safe, synchronized, and available no matter what happens to your primary environment.

Here is how it works: your privileged secrets are automatically replicated to a secondary, isolated Secret Server instance. That replica can live anywhere you choose, another on-premises data center, a different cloud region, or even both. It is secure, isolated from your production environment, and only accessible under strict break-glass conditions.

So, if your main vault becomes inaccessible for any reason, you can still access the passwords, keys, and credentials needed to keep critical systems online and start remediation, investigations, and recovery immediately.

No scrambling. No guesswork. No downtime.

Flexible, simple, and always in sync

Resilient Secrets updates every 15 minutes, ensuring your replica environment is always current. You have the flexibility to choose what works best for your architecture:

  • Cloud to Cloud: Replicate across regions for redundancy
  • Cloud to On-Premises: Keep a local copy under your control
  • On-Premises to Cloud: Build a cloud-based safety net
  • On-Premises to On-Premises: Protect across separate data centers

You can even configure multiple replicas for extra assurance. No matter your setup, your credentials remain available, secure, and exact, giving you peace of mind that recovery will not depend on luck.

Cyber Resilience Circular Diagram

Cyber resilience in action

Imagine this: a major cloud outage hits your region (ring any bells!?), or ransomware locks down key systems. Instead of scrambling to rebuild access, your team simply switches over to your secondary environment.

Secrets are accessible. Users stay connected. Operations continue.

That’s resilience by design, not reaction.

Why resilience matters

Prevention will always be a cornerstone of security, but cyber resilience is what ensures business continuity and survival.

Organizations that build redundancy and flexibility into their identity infrastructure are smart. Those that build resiliency into their strategy can withstand the unexpected, maintain customer trust, and protect their reputation with peace of mind when others cannot.

Delinea Resilient Secrets helps you do exactly that. It’s your escape plan for the unpredictable, a way to stay in control when the world gets chaotic for even the most well-resourced teams.

When it comes to protecting access, ensuring business continuity, and earning trust, Resilient Secrets delivers peace of mind when it matters most.

Disruption will happen, AI-driven attacks, human error, outages, you name it. Resilient Secrets ensures your critical credentials stay secure, synchronized and accessible, so your business keeps running no matter what. In 2026, resilience isn’t optional; it’s the edge that separates recovery from downtime and trust from risk.

Learn how Delinea Resilient Secrets can strengthen your business continuity strategy.