Business Impact Analysis
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An analysis of an enterprise’s requirements, processes, and interdependencies used to characterize information system contingency requirements and priorities in the event of a significant disruption.
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Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
A Business Impact Analysis determines what levels of impact to a system are tolerable.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
An analysis of an information system’s requirements, functions, and interdependencies used to characterize system contingency requirements and priorities in the event of a significant disruption.
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
Internal75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
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