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| Home / Risk Glossary / Maximum Acceptable Outage | 4 February, 2012 | |
Maximum Acceptable Outage (Definition)The Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO) is the maximum amount of time a system can be unavailable before its loss will compromise the organization's objectives or survival. A similar and more standard term for this is the Maxium Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD). See Also: Maximum Tolerable Downtime, Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption. Risky Thinking Newsletter Are you responsible for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Risk Management in your organization? Then you may wish to receive a free subscription to the the monthly Risky Thinking Newsletter. It contains news, opinions and articles of interest to people working in these areas. View a sample issue, or click here to subscribe. Recent articles have included: Watching the news coverage of hurricane Katrina has been like watching a Greek
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