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1.2 Definitions

No: 381000058504 Date(g): 27/2/2017 | Date(h): 1/6/1438 Status: In-Force

Effective from 2017-02-27 - Feb 26 2017
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BCM is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause. It provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
 
BCM is part of the overall management system, which includes organizational structure, policies, planning activities, responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources that establishes, implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.
 
IT Disaster recovery (IT DR) is part of BCM which includes policies, standards, procedures and processes pertaining to resilience, recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure supporting critical business processes.
 
Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO) is defined as the time that would take for adverse impacts which might arise because of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.
 
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is defined as the period following an incident within which, products or services must be resumed, activity must be resumed, or resources must be recovered.
 
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is defined as the point to which, information used by an activity must be restored to enable the activity to operate on resumption. This can also be termed as "Maximum Data Loss".