What is Recovery time objective (RTO)?
In short
The recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable time to restore a system or process after a disruption.
Key takeaways
- The recovery point objective is the maximum acceptable data loss, measured back in time.
- Both are set from a business impact analysis.
- Shorter objectives need costlier solutions, such as hot sites or real-time replication.
Where it's tested
ISC: Incident Response & Monitoring — study notes, a five-minute revision sheet and practice questions.
Practise: 3 questions
Question 1 of 3 · 0 answered
A company can tolerate losing at most 15 minutes of transaction data in a disaster. Which metric does this define, and what does it drive?