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Glossary: Governance, Risk and Compliance

recovery time objective (RTO)

Also written: RTO

The target time to bring a function back. It must be no longer than the MTD (RTO ≤ MTD); online orders' RTO is 8 hours.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)recovery point objective (RPO)mean time to repair (MTTR)