Delinea Resilient Secrets
RESILIENT
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RESILIENT
SECRETS

Enterprise-grade disaster recovery for Delinea Secret Server. Automated failover, real-time replication, and immutable backups — ensuring your privileged credentials remain accessible through any failure event.

Automated Failover Near-Zero RPO <30s RTO Immutable Backups Geo Redundancy Non-Disruptive DR Tests
LIVE SYSTEM METRICS
<30s
Automated failover
RTO target
RPO≈0
Data loss with
synchronous replication
99.99%
Target vault
availability SLA
100%
Transparent — zero
user intervention
01 — Overview
WHY RESILIENT SECRETS
The Problem

YOUR VAULT IS YOUR
MOST CRITICAL DEPENDENCY

Secret Server is the gatekeeper to every privileged credential in your organisation. When it goes down, so does your security posture — and your operations.

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The Hidden Catastrophe: Most organisations invest heavily in vaulting credentials but treat the vault itself as a solved problem. When the vault is unavailable — even for minutes — privileged users resort to hardcoded passwords, shared credentials, and bypassed controls. A disaster that takes down your vault simultaneously destroys your entire PAM investment.
✕ Without Resilient Secrets
  • Vault outage halts all privileged access and session management immediately
  • Single point of failure in your most critical security control
  • Manual restore from backup takes hours — sometimes an entire business day
  • Risk of credential data loss and integrity failures during recovery
  • Ransomware encrypts vault database across all manually-managed replicas
  • DR testing requires taking production offline — so it never happens
  • RTO: hours to days  |  RPO: potentially hours of data loss
  • No automated alerting when vault health degrades before a full failure
✓ With Resilient Secrets
  • Automatic failover to hot standby — completely transparent to users
  • Active-passive or active-active replication across separate sites/regions
  • Recovery in under 30 seconds — operations never truly stop
  • Synchronous replication preserves every write with zero data loss
  • Immutable write-once snapshots survive even complete ransomware attacks
  • Non-disruptive DR testing validates recovery without touching production
  • RTO: <30 seconds  |  RPO: near zero (synchronous mode)
  • Proactive health monitoring alerts on degraded redundancy before failure
02 — Features & Benefits
6 CORE CAPABILITIES
Product Capabilities

WHAT RESILIENT SECRETS
ACTUALLY DELIVERS

Six enterprise-grade capabilities that transform Secret Server from a single point of failure into the most resilient component in your entire security stack.

01
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AUTOMATED FAILOVER
When the primary node fails health checks — no matter the cause — Resilient Secrets automatically promotes the standby node without any administrator action. Credential checkouts, password rotations, session proxy launches, and API calls resume on the new primary in under 30 seconds. Users experience a brief connection reset and nothing more.
High Availability
02
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GEOGRAPHIC REDUNDANCY
Deploy standby nodes in entirely separate data centres, availability zones, or cloud regions. Resilient Secrets protects against site-level catastrophes — datacenter fires, regional cloud outages, natural disasters — by maintaining a fully synchronised replica in a geographically isolated location with its own power, network, and cooling infrastructure.
Geo Redundancy
03
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REAL-TIME REPLICATION
Every vault write — new secrets, credential rotations, policy changes, access control updates — is replicated to standby nodes in real time. Synchronous mode confirms each write only after the standby acknowledges it, guaranteeing zero data loss (RPO = 0). Asynchronous mode trades minimal lag for lower write latency across high-latency WAN links.
Synchronous Replication
04
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IMMUTABLE SNAPSHOT BACKUPS
Point-in-time snapshots are written to write-once object storage (AWS S3 Object Lock, Azure Immutable Blob, or on-premise WORM arrays). These snapshots cannot be modified, encrypted, or deleted — even if ransomware compromises every live replica simultaneously. Granular restore lets you recover an individual secret without rolling back recent rotations.
Ransomware-Proof
05
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NON-DISRUPTIVE DR TESTING
An untested DR plan is not a DR plan. Resilient Secrets lets you clone a snapshot into a fully isolated test environment and run the complete failover sequence — detection, quorum vote, promotion, traffic cutover — without touching production. Each test generates a timestamped report showing actual RTO/RPO measurements versus targets, essential for cyber insurance and compliance audits.
Compliance-Ready
06
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CONTINUOUS HEALTH MONITORING
Proactive health agents continuously monitor replication lag, node availability, certificate expiry, backup staleness, and storage capacity — alerting your operations team before a failure occurs. Metrics are exposed via REST API, syslog (CEF/Leef), and native connectors for Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Datadog, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.
SIEM Integration
03 — Architecture
CLICK NODES TO EXPLORE
Platform Architecture

DELINEA PLATFORM
REPLICATION TOPOLOGY

The Delinea Platform continuously replicates all vault data to the Resilient Secrets node in real time. Click any component to explore its role in the architecture.

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SELECT A COMPONENT
Click any node in the diagram below
Each component in this topology plays a distinct role in ensuring continuous vault availability. The Delinea Platform is the active primary — the Resilient Secrets node shadows every write, ready to take over in under 30 seconds.
DELINEA PLATFORM → RESILIENT SECRETS
REPLICATION ACTIVE
DELINEA PLATFORM PRIMARY · READ/WRITE ON-PREMISE RESILIENT SECRETS STANDBY · HOT REPLICA SYNC REPLICATION ACK / HEARTBEAT SECRET SERVER DELINEA PLATFORM ACTIVE — READ / WRITE <1ms REP LAG SYNC MODE AES-256 AT REST ⟳ RESILIENT SECRETS ON-PREMISE STANDBY NODE STANDBY — READY TO PROMOTE <30s FAILOVER RPO≈0 DATA LOSS ON-PREM DEPLOYMENT
Sync replication (primary → standby)
Heartbeat / ACK (standby → primary)
Active / Read-Write
Standby / Hot Replica
04 — Knowledge Check
RESILIENT SECRETS ASSESSMENT
Validate Your Knowledge

KNOWLEDGE CHECK

Six focused questions on Delinea Resilient Secrets. Select your answer for each, then submit for scored results with detailed explanations.

RESILIENT SECRETS ASSESSMENT
Score: — / —
QUESTION 01 OF 06
What is the single most critical security consequence if Secret Server is unavailable during a disaster?
AReplication lag accumulates on the standby node
BAudit logs stop being written to the SIEM
CPrivileged users bypass controls and use hardcoded or shared credentials, destroying the entire PAM security posture
DPassword rotation schedules fall behind their configured interval
QUESTION 02 OF 06
What does RPO measure — and what RPO does Resilient Secrets achieve with synchronous replication?
AHow fast the system recovers (downtime window) — Resilient Secrets achieves <30 seconds
BThe maximum acceptable data loss measured as a time window — Resilient Secrets achieves near-zero (RPO ≈ 0) in synchronous mode
CThe number of standby nodes in the replication cluster
DThe geographic distance between primary and DR sites
QUESTION 03 OF 06
Why does Resilient Secrets use a quorum vote / arbiter node as part of its failover decision?
ATo slow down failover and give administrators time to intervene
BTo encrypt the replication stream between primary and standby
CTo generate the mandatory compliance audit log for the failover event
DTo prevent split-brain — the dangerous scenario where two nodes simultaneously believe they are primary and accept diverging writes
QUESTION 04 OF 06
Why are Immutable Snapshot Backups critical even when real-time replication is already in place?
ARansomware that encrypts the live vault database will propagate to all replicas via replication — immutable write-once snapshots are the only protection against this scenario
BReplication is asynchronous by default, so snapshots compensate for the data loss window
CSnapshots provide faster failover than promoting a replication standby
DImmutable backups replace the need for a standby node in smaller deployments
QUESTION 05 OF 06
In Active-Passive deployment, what happens to client connections when the primary vault fails and the standby is promoted?
AClients must be manually reconfigured to point at the new primary's IP address
BAll client sessions are permanently terminated and must re-authenticate from scratch
CThe load balancer re-routes connections automatically — clients experience a brief TCP reset then reconnect transparently with no configuration change required
DClients are placed in a read-only queue until the original primary is restored
QUESTION 06 OF 06
What is the key benefit of Non-Disruptive DR Testing that makes it essential for compliance and cyber insurance?
AIt permanently migrates the vault to the DR site to test production workloads on the standby
BIt validates the full failover sequence in an isolated environment without impacting production — generating a timestamped report of actual RTO/RPO measurements that satisfies auditors and insurers
CIt disables health monitoring temporarily to allow planned maintenance on the primary node
DIt creates a second live production vault that can absorb overflow traffic during peak load