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CompTIA SecurityX CAS-005 · Domain 1: Governance, risk and compliance

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning: BIA, RTO, RPO and plan testing

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Business continuity (BC) keeps critical business functions running during a disruption; disaster recovery (DR) restores the technology those functions depend on. Both begin with a business impact analysis (BIA), which identifies critical processes, the systems and people they depend on, and how quickly losing them causes unacceptable harm.

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