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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

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Information Class

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Variants

acronym
BIA
plural
Business Impact Analyses
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Business Impact Analysis's
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Business Impact Analyses'