Recovery point objective
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
The point in time to which data must be recovered after an outage.
MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
Determined based on the acceptable data loss in case of a disruption of operations It indicates the earliest point in time that is acceptable to recover the data. The RPO effectively quantifies the permissible amount of data loss in case of interruption.
Classifications
Entity Type
Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- acronym
- RPO
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- Recovery point objectives
- possessive
- Recovery point objective's
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- Recovery point objectives'