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Recover FunctionnounMWEDevelop and implement the appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event.verified
recovery plannounMWEThe written expression of a recovery process which consists of defining rules, processes, and disciplines to ensure that the critical business processes will continue to function if there is a failure of one or more of the information processing or telecommunications resources upon which their operations depends. The following are key elements to a disaster recovery plan: 1) Establish a planning group, 2) Perform risk assessment and audits, 3) Establish priorities for applications and networks, 4) Develop recovery strategies, 5) Prepare inventory and documentation of the plan, 6) Develop verification criteria and procedures, 5) Implement the plan.verified
recovery planningnounMWEThe activities undertaken to define a recovery process which consists of defining rules, processes, and disciplines to ensure that the critical business processes will continue to function if there is a failure of one or more of the information processing or telecommunications resources upon which their operations depends.verified
Recovery point objectivenounMWEThe point in time to which data must be recovered after an outage.verified
Recovery point objective (RPO)nounMWEThe amount of data that can be lost without severely impacting the recovery of operations or the point in time in which systems and data must be recovered (e.g., the date and time of a business disruption).verified
Recovery ProceduresnounMWEActions necessary to restore data files of an information system and computational capability after a system failure.verified
recovery processnounMWEThe steps taken to restore a service, configurable item, etc. to a working state.verified
Recovery service levelsnounMWECollectively, terms that define the speed, quality, and quantity of recovery capability in response to a disaster, including recovery time objective, recovery point objective, timely notification, percentage of normal production service level agreements (SLAs) that will be delivered during recovery mode, etc.verified
Recovery sitenounMWEAn 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.verified
recovery strategynounMWEA strategy to resume the minimum set of critical services identified in the business impact analysis (e.g. use of another delivery channel to provide the same service.verified
Recovery time objectivenounMWEThe overall length of time an information system’s components can be in the recovery phase before negatively impacting the organization’s mission or mission/business functions.verified
Recovery time objective (RTO)nounMWEThe 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).verified
Recovery vendorsnounMWEOrganizations that provide recovery sites and support services for a fee.verified
Recreational DrugnounMWEa narcotic drug that is used only occasionally and is claimed to be nonaddictiveverified
Recreational VehiclenounMWEa motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activitiesverified
Rectilinear RegressionnounMWEthe relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + bverified
Rectus InferiornounMWEthe ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and mediallyverified
Rectus SuperiornounMWEthe ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball upward and mediallyverified
Recurrent FevernounMWEmarked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticksverified
Recurring DecimalnounMWEa decimal with a sequence of digits that repeats itself indefinitelyverified
Recursive DefinitionnounMWE(mathematics) a definition of a function from which values of the function can be calculated in a finite number of stepsverified
Red AlertnounMWEthe highest level of alert when an attack by the enemy seems imminent (or more generally a state of alert resulting from imminent danger)verified
Red AlgaenounMWEmarine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigmentverified
Red AmaranthnounMWEtall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purpleverified
Red Angel's TrumpetnounMWEarborescent South American shrub having very large orange-red flowersverified
Red BaneberrynounMWENorth American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berriesverified
Red BearberrynounMWEevergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berriesverified
Red BirchnounMWEbirch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown barkverified
Red Bone MarrownounMWEbone marrow of children and some adult bones that is required for the formation of red blood cellsverified
Red CedarnounMWEsmall juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needlesverified
Red CoralnounMWEthe hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelryverified
Red Cypress PinenounMWEAustralian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous dark brown seedverified
Red DevilnounMWEbarbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsionsverified
Red DrumnounMWElarge edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexicoverified
Red FirenounMWEcombustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright redverified
Red GumnounMWEreddish-brown dried gummy exudation from any of several trees of the genus Eucalyptus especially Eucalyptus camaldulensisverified
Red HawnounMWEAmerican red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairsverified
Red HelleborinenounMWEorchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowersverified
Red Jungle FowlnounMWEa jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowlverified
Red JunipernounMWEsmall juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needlesverified
Red LeadnounMWEa reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramicsverified