Operational Resilience Assessment is the evaluation of operational resilience as part of credit underwriting or portfolio monitoring. It helps the lender identify risk, repayment comfort, policy compliance, and required mitigants. Define the scoring basis, source data, frequency, and approval impact before using it. In secured lending, it affects collateral comfort, charge creation, valuation, enforceability and the lender’s recovery position if the account turns stressed. The practical credit value comes from enforceability and control, not only from the value entered in the system. For example, the lender should check whether the security value, ownership, charge ranking and enforceability support the proposed exposure. It matters because collateral quality is useful only when the security is correctly identified, valued, documented and legally enforceable. The common caution is to separate estimated value from enforceable value and to confirm ownership, charge ranking, insurance, documentation and perfection status.