Managing Downtime Periods
Impact types are assessed for each downtime period. Downtime periods are displayed in the columns of the BIA matrix.
Listing Downtime Periods
To access downtime periods used within a Business Impact Analysis:
In the navigation bar, select Administration > Business Continuity > Downtime Periods.Downtime Period Values Available as Standard
The following values are available by default:
• 12 hours
• 1 day
• 2 days
• 1 week
• 2 weeks
• 4 weeks
These values are the possible values of the RTO (Recovery Time Objective). See Viewing a BIA Computed Results.
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) determines the maximum tolerable amount of time it takes to bring critical systems back online, possibly in a Degraded Mode. It is related to downtime, representing target time following an incident for Product or service delivery resumption, or Activity resumption, or Resources recovery.