Glossary
BCM
Business Continuity Management.
BCMS
Business Continuity Management System.
BIA
Business Impact Analysis.
RTO
Recovery Time Objective.
RPO
Recovery Point Objective, commonly applied to recoverable data state.
MTPD
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption; terminology and use should be defined within the organization's method.
Minimum capacity
Reduced but acceptable level of a priority activity during disruption.
Dependency
People, technology, information, supplier, facility or other resource required by an activity.
Tabletop exercise
Discussion-based exercise used to examine decisions, roles and coordination.
DR
Disaster Recovery, commonly referring to recovery of technology and information systems.
Corrective action
Action taken to address the cause of a nonconformity or material program gap.
SPOF
Single Point of Failure.