Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The maximum tolerable amount of data loss measured in time. It is used in disaster recovery planning to determine how often data backups should be made and how much data can be lost in the event of a disaster. Examples of RPOs include a daily backup for a financial system to ensure no more than one day’s worth of transactions are lost or a weekly backup for a non-critical system that can tolerate losing up to a week’s worth of data.
Categories: CC D2: BC - DR and Incident Response Concepts | CCSP D3: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security | CISM D4: Incident Management | CISSP D7: Security Operations | Security+ D5: Security Program Management and Oversight | SSCP D4: Incident Response and Recovery
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