The Forum on Cyber Resilience of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Recoverability as a First Class Security Objective on February 8 2018 in Washington D C The workshop featured presentations from several experts in industry research and government roles who spoke about the complex facets of recoverability that is the ability to restore normal operations and security in a system affected by software or hardware failure or a deliberate attack This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop