Recuperability: How well could a system recover from an attack?

Recovery mechanisms are ways in which the systems can recover from failures.

Increase the scale of the trouble only two or three times, and would our system recover?

In the event, the system should detect and recover full functionality.

Overwhelmed by the 80's crack epidemic, the system has not fully recovered.

The cuts went much too deep and the system never recovered.

Any way to make the immune system recover faster, would be useful.

But that idea appears dead politically, and even if it were successfully revived, the natural system still would not recover its original size.

Our judicial system is recovering in effectiveness and credibility from the damages of war.

Additionally, traditional systems do not recover well from a compromised 'key'.