National Resilience Score
Use an evidence-validated multidimensional score covering infrastructure, response, cyber, energy, food/water, health, transport, continuity, disaster and community readiness.
Define where this capability matters and what must continue.
Record the relevant national, state, district or local geography; affected population; responsible authority and operator; critical function; upstream and downstream dependencies; maximum tolerable disruption; alternative route; and safe publication level.
Continuity, District Plans & Decision Governance. Its effects may cross defence, governance, digital, energy, water, food, health, transport, industry, jobs, education and community resilience.
Start with consequence, exposure and service failure.
Use an evidence-validated multidimensional score covering infrastructure, response, cyber, energy, food/water, health, transport, continuity, disaster and community readiness.
Decision-makers lack a comparable view of local readiness and unresolved dependencies.
Dashboards can create false certainty when definitions, coverage and sensitivity limits are hidden.
State what could fail, who or what is exposed, the plausible consequence, current control, evidence strength and unresolved uncertainty—without publishing sensitive operational detail.
Test technical, institutional, supply, workforce and lifecycle causes.
Unclear ownership
Compare audits, exercises, service history, maintenance, staffing, budgets, dependencies and credible alternatives before confirming causation.
No common evidence contract
Compare audits, exercises, service history, maintenance, staffing, budgets, dependencies and credible alternatives before confirming causation.
Failure lessons not tracked to closure
Compare audits, exercises, service history, maintenance, staffing, budgets, dependencies and credible alternatives before confirming causation.
Scores collapse unlike risks into one number
Compare audits, exercises, service history, maintenance, staffing, budgets, dependencies and credible alternatives before confirming causation.
Use evidence appropriate to the claim and its security class.
| Claim | Minimum evidence | Publication rule |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity exists | Inventory, trained people, maintenance and current availability | Aggregate sensitive assets |
| System is ready | Exercise or operational test against a stated objective | Publish method and finding, not exploitable detail |
| Intervention worked | Baseline, comparator where feasible, outcome, cost and unintended effects | Show uncertainty and independent review |
Evidence contractDefinition · geography · function · period · source · method · owner · uncertainty · verification · access classification.
Continuity, District Plans & Decision Governance
Make responsibilities, priorities, failures and recovery readiness visible at the right level without exposing sensitive operations.
National Resilience Score
Use an evidence-validated multidimensional score covering infrastructure, response, cyber, energy, food/water, health, transport, continuity, disaster and community readiness.
The operating chain should identify prevention, detection or monitoring where lawful, trained people, infrastructure, information, command, logistics, backup, response, recovery, maintenance, audit, correction and learning.
Choose proportionate action that can be maintained and tested.
Create district plans with named owners and dated tests.
Keep underlying dimensions visible beside any score.
Maintain protected failure reviews and public-safe corrections.
Use transparent priority criteria with expert and legal review.
Protect urgent functions, pilot safely and transform verified gaps.
Define and protect
Confirm the function, consequence, owner, immediate exposure, current backup, response route and legal boundary.
Diagnose and design
Map dependencies, evidence gaps, failure modes, alternatives, maintenance, workforce, cost and safe evaluation.
Bounded pilot
Build a district resilience plan and dashboard with ten separate dimensions, data lineage, access controls, an exercise log and corrective-action tracker.
Evaluate and transform
Scale only after independent review of performance, resilience benefit, rights, lifecycle viability and unintended consequences.
Track real capability and service continuity—not activity alone.
Preserve rights, oversight and operational security.
- RiskPublishing exploitable vulnerability detailLegal basis, accountable owner, access control, independent review, correction and remedy required.
- RiskGaming composite scoresLegal basis, accountable owner, access control, independent review, correction and remedy required.
- RiskCentral plans ignoring local contextLegal basis, accountable owner, access control, independent review, correction and remedy required.
- RequiredCivilian and democratic oversight, due process, privacy, non-discrimination and proportionalitySecurity objectives do not remove legal and constitutional responsibilities.
- RequiredPublic-safe evidence and controlled operational detailNever crowdsource or publish exploitable vulnerability information.