Recovery time objective (RTO)
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The maximum allowable downtime that can occur without severely impacting the recovery of operations or the time in which systems, applications, or business functions must be recovered after an outage (e.g. the point in time that a process can no longer be inoperable).
MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
Classifications
Entity Type
Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
Internal72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Recovery time objective (RTO)S
- possessive
- Recovery time objective (RTO)'s
- pluralpossessive
- Recovery time objective (RTO)S'