Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Business impact analysis (BIA)

a formal process designed to identify the mission-essential functions within an organization and facilitate the identification of the critical systems that support those functions

The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

is a measure of the reliability of a system. It is the expected amount of time that will elapse between system failures

The Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

is the average amount of time to restore a system to it’s normal operating state after a failure

The Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

is the amount of time that the organization can tolerate a system being down before it is repaired

The Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

is the amount of data that the organization can tolerate losing during an outage

Single points of failure

are systems, devices, or other components that, if they fail, would cause an outage