Resilience
Resilience: The ability to recover gracefully from error conditions and unexpected circumstances.
Definition
The ability to recover gracefully from error conditions and unexpected circumstances. For example, manually marked paper preserves evidence of exceptions that can advise both adjudication and audit to achieve better interpretation of original voter intent.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
The ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Resilience includes the ability to withstand and recover from deliberate attacks, accidents, or naturally occurring threats or incidents.
- Definition 3
The capacity to withstand and quickly recover from attacks that could compel, deter, restrain, or otherwise shape U. S. behavior.
- Definition 4
The ability to adapt to changing conditions and prepare for, withstand, and rapidly recover from disruption.
- Definition 5
The ability to quickly adapt and recover from any known or unknown changes to the environment through holistic implementation of risk management, contingency, and continuity planning. (SP 800-34) (NISTIR)