Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

NIST SP 800-34

Also written: NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication 800-34 Revision 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems

Special Publication 800-34 from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the US government's guide to contingency planning, meaning how to keep a system running or restore it after a disruption. It is a standard source for the definitions of hot, warm and cold recovery sites, recovery phases, and recovery targets such as RTO and RPO.