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| Home / Risk Glossary / Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption | 2 September, 2010 | |
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (Definition)The maximum time an activity or resource can be unavailable before irreperable harm is caused to the organization. As part of a Business Impact Analysis, a maximum tolerable period of disruption should be estimated for each key activity within the organization. This applies to both customer-facing and internal activities. Note that the Recovery Time Objective specifies the time by which an organization intends to recover an activity or resource: the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption is the upper bound on this time. This term may be abbreviated as MTPoD or MTPD. See Also: Business Impact Analysis, Recovery Time Objective. 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: On a forum somewhere in cyberspace, a poster lamented attending a lecture on business continuity. Her impression was that it was just backup. It isn't, but why might she have been given the wrong impression?
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