These terms are commonly used in discussions of risk assessment, particularly in the field of business continuity planning.
| ABCDEF | ALE | Alternate Site |
| Annual Loss Expectancy | Annual Rate of Occurrence | Annualized Loss Expectancy |
| Annualized Rate of Occurrence | ARO | Asset |
| Asset Risk | Asset Value | Asynchronous Replication |
| AV |
| Backlog | BCDR | BCP |
| BIA | BS 7799 | Business Continuity Planning |
| Business Impact Analysis | Business Interruption |
| Declaration Fee | Differential Backup | Disaster Recovery Planning |
| DRP |
| Electronic Vaulting | Emergent Risk | Emerging Risk |
| Exposure | Exposure Factor |
| FEMA | Full Backup | Full Interruption Test |
| Gap Analysis |
| Hazard | Hot Site |
| Incremental Backup | Inherent Risk | Investment Risk |
| ISO 17799 |
| Lockdown Procedure |
| MAA | MAO | Maximum Acceptable Outage |
| Maximum Tolerable Downtime | Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption | Minimum Service Level |
| Mobile Site | MTD | MTPD |
| MTPOD | Mutual Assistance Agreement |
| Parallel Test | Peril | Pharming |
| Phishing | Podslurping | Pure Risk |
| Quick Ship Ageement |
| Shelter-In-Place Procedure | Simulation Test | Single Loss Expectancy |
| SLE | Software Escrow Agreement | Speculative Risk |
| Structured Walk-Through Test | Synchronous Replication |
| Table-Top Exercise |
| Warm Site |
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