Security Leadership Glossary

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42 terms in Business Continuity & Resilience

A

Alternate Processing Site

B

Backup Strategy

Backup and Restoration

Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

Business Continuity Plan

Business Impact Analysis

C

Contingency Plan Testing

Contingency Planning

Continuity Planning

Continuity of Operations

Crisis Management

Crisis Management Team

Critical Business Functions

Critical Function Identification

Cyber Resilience

D

Data Backup Strategy

Dependency Mapping

Disaster Recovery Plan

E

Emergency Notification

F

Full Interruption Test

G

Geographic Redundancy

H

I

Immutable Backup

M

Maximum Acceptable Outage

Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption

N

O

Operational Resilience

R

Ransomware Recovery Plan

Recovery Capability Validation

Recovery Objectives

Recovery Point Objective

Recovery Runbook

Recovery Strategy

Recovery Time Objective

Resilience Strategy

S

Supply Chain Continuity

T

Tabletop Testing

W

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