Recovery site

nounverified·updated Oct 6, 2026

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An alternate location for processing information (and possibly conducting business) in an emergency. Usually distinguished as "hot" sites that are fully configured centers with compatible computer equipment and "cold" sites that are operational computer centers without the computer equipment.

MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Facility100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

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Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

Internal70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Recovery sites
possessive: Recovery site's
pluralpossessive: Recovery sites'

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