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Resilience Testing
Deliberate, controlled failure, injected before real failure finds you. We validate that failover works, recovery is fast, networks degrade gracefully and redundancy actually delivers the uptime it promises.
Overview
Prove your systems recover before a real outage tests them for you
Most systems are designed to survive failure. Very few are proven to. Resilience Testing closes that gap by injecting deliberate, controlled failure while your systems are healthy, so you learn how they behave under stress on your terms rather than during an incident at 3am. We validate that failover actually triggers, that recovery is fast, that networks degrade gracefully and that the redundancy in your architecture delivers the uptime it promises.
One team stays accountable across security, data assurance, software QA and people, so resilience is not handled as an isolated experiment but as part of a coherent quality and risk picture. Baknet is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001, and the work is carried out by certified, senior practitioners who plan every experiment before anything is injected. Results can be reproduced, remediation is checked, and every engagement carries a retest round.
What it includes
Four capabilities, one accountable engagement
Failover and Recovery Testing
We validate automatic failover, backup and disaster recovery mechanisms against your stated recovery objectives. This confirms that standby components take over when they should, that data restores cleanly and that the switchover completes inside the window your business has committed to. Where recovery falls short, you get the measurement that shows exactly where and by how much.
Chaos Engineering
Controlled fault injection tests how the system holds up under real failure conditions: a service dropping out, a dependency slowing down, a node going dark. Every experiment carries explicit blast-radius limits and a rollback path, and it can be staged in pre-production first. The aim is not to break things for its own sake, but to surface weaknesses before they surface themselves.
Network Resilience Testing
We simulate latency, packet loss and connectivity failures across your services to see how the product copes when the network beneath it misbehaves. This reveals the retries that never fire, the timeouts set too high and the calls with no fallback, all of which stay hidden until conditions turn bad in production.
High Availability Validation
We verify redundancy and uptime across the components you cannot afford to lose. If a load balancer, replica or region is meant to keep you running through a fault, we test that claim directly rather than trusting the diagram. The result is evidence that your high-availability design behaves the way it is documented to.
How we deliver
One defined path, from failure map to proven recovery
Every engagement runs the same disciplined way, with daily progress updates throughout, so there are no surprises when the final report lands.
01
Map Failure Modes
We map failure modes with your team, identifying the critical components, the dependencies between them and the scenarios that genuinely threaten the service, so testing effort is spent where it pays back.
02
Design Safe Experiments
Each experiment gets a defined blast radius, a rollback path and a clear hypothesis about what should happen. You approve the plan before anything runs.
03
Inject and Observe
We execute the failover, chaos and network-degradation experiments while measuring how the system actually recovers: what fails over, how long it takes and whether the user ever notices.
04
Harden and Re-Verify
We work through the resilience gaps the experiments exposed, confirm the fixes and re-test until your recovery objectives are demonstrably met.
It is the same disciplined path we use across the practice. Because resilience shades into live incident response, it pairs naturally with our Managed SOC service, and our full approach is set out on How We Engage.
Business value
Why Resilience Testing pays off
Disaster Recovery Proven, Not Assumed
Failover and recovery are demonstrated under test conditions, so the real event unfolds as a rehearsed procedure rather than a scramble. You find out your recovery works while it is cheap to fix, not while customers are watching.
Downtime Minutes You Get Back
Validated recovery paths shrink outage duration. Every minute trimmed from time-to-recover limits the revenue loss, the SLA penalties and the reputational cost that a prolonged outage would otherwise carry.
Graceful Degradation, Not Total Failure
When components or networks misbehave, users experience reduced service rather than a dead product. Non-critical features fall away first while the core journey keeps working, which preserves trust through conditions that would otherwise take you fully offline.
Uptime Commitments Backed by Evidence
The availability claims you make to customers and regulators rest on proof. Redundancy and uptime targets are demonstrated under test, so the numbers in your contracts and compliance reports are defensible.
Systems that bend under failure instead of breaking, proven before it matters.
What you receive on every engagement
Daily Progress Updates
Severity-Rated Report
Reproducible Evidence
One Included Retest
Questions, answered
Frequently asked
Is chaos engineering safe to run on our systems?
Yes, when it is planned properly. Every experiment is designed with explicit blast-radius limits and rollback paths, and it can be staged in pre-production before it goes anywhere near live traffic. Nothing is injected without an agreed plan that you have signed off.
What recovery objectives do you test against?
Your stated RTO and RPO targets, plus the failover and redundancy claims made in your architecture. The engagement proves or disproves each of them with real measurements rather than opinion.
How often should resilience testing be repeated?
After any significant architectural change, and periodically for critical systems. Recovery paths tend to rot quietly between incidents as dependencies shift, so regular re-testing keeps the evidence current.
Can you test without a full production copy?
In most cases, yes. We scope experiments to the environments available, staging fault injection in pre-production and validating against agreed test instances where a production run would carry too much risk.
What do you need from us to get started?
A view of the architecture you want assured, your recovery objectives, and named points of contact who can approve experiments and grant access. We agree the scope, the target environments and the rules of engagement during planning, so nothing stalls once testing begins.
Will the experiments disrupt our live services?
They are designed not to. Each experiment carries a defined blast radius and a rollback path, high-risk runs are coordinated with your team, and fault injection can be staged in pre-production or run in agreed windows. You approve the plan before anything is injected.
Which methodologies and frameworks do you follow?
Our work draws on established chaos engineering and resilience practices: hypothesis-driven experiments with a controlled blast radius, and recovery measured against your stated RTO and RPO. Findings are documented consistently so they map cleanly to your continuity and risk requirements.
How do you keep our data and findings confidential?
Confidentiality is built into the engagement. Work runs under a mutual NDA, and Baknet is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001 at firm level, so evidence, credentials and reports are handled under audited, access-controlled processes. We collect only what an experiment requires and return or securely dispose of sensitive material on closure.
What do we receive at the end?
A clear report of every experiment run, what failed over, how long recovery took and where the gaps were, each framed by business impact. You also receive daily progress updates throughout and one included retest round to confirm that the fixes hold.
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