Domain registrars. Wallet keys. Cloud root accounts. The signing certificate for your app. The list of who-has-access-to-what. For most organizations, these critical assets are protected by a single, fragile mechanism: someone remembering where they are and how to reach them.
Continuity is the real risk
People leave. Laptops die. Passwords get reset and forgotten. None of these are rare events — they are certainties on a long enough timeline. The question is not whether you will lose access to something important, but whether losing it will be a five-minute inconvenience or an existential one.
A digital legacy plan is just disaster recovery for the things you forgot were single points of failure.
What a real plan looks like
- An inventory of critical credentials, keys, and accounts — and who owns each.
- Encrypted, access-controlled custody, not a spreadsheet or a shared note.
- Clear succession: who gets access, under what conditions, verified in advance.
- Recovery procedures that have actually been tested, not just written down.
It is not just for crypto
The phrase "digital legacy" gets associated with wallets, but the principle is universal. Any business that runs on systems has assets worth safeguarding this way. The teams that plan for it treat continuity as infrastructure — quietly in place, rarely thought about, and there when it counts.