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Security Operations · Foundational

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

An analysis that identifies critical business functions and the impact of their disruption over time.

Definition

The BIA determines mission-essential functions, dependencies, maximum tolerable downtime, RTO, RPO and the financial, operational, legal and reputational impacts of outages. Its results drive continuity and recovery strategies and investment.

Example

Determining that online ordering loses 50,000 dollars per hour and must be restored within four hours.

Exam tip

The BIA comes before choosing recovery strategies; it produces MTD, RTO and RPO.

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