Recovery Time Objective
What is Recovery Time Objective?
The maximum acceptable duration for restoring a business function or IT system after a disruption before unacceptable consequences occur.
Terms that appear alongside recovery time objective
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as recovery time objective. The number is how many controls name both.
- recovery point objective 11 shared controls
- disruption 8 shared controls
- disaster recovery 8 shared controls
- nist 8 shared controls
- business continuity 6 shared controls
- ransomware 6 shared controls
- iso 22301 5 shared controls
- resilience 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern recovery time objective
What the standards actually require on recovery time objective
Requirements naming recovery time objective across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Where determined by the Commission to be a critical financial market or a critical swap data repository, maintain a recovery plan and resources sufficient to achieve a same day recovery time objective even in a wide scale disruption.
CFTC-SS-25 · Same Day Recovery Time Objective for Critical Entities →Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives)
CP-7(3) · Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives) →Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives)
CP-7(3) · Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives) →Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives)
CP-7(3) · Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives) →Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives)
CP-7(3) · Alternate Processing Site | Priority of Service. Develop alternate processing site agreements that contain priority-of-service provisions in accordance with availability requirements (including recovery time objectives) →Establish RTO for each prioritized activity, ensuring recovery within the MTPD with sufficient buffer.
ISO22317-5.4 · Recovery Time Objective (RTO) →Questions people ask about recovery time objective
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