Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

RPO

A Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data or time that an organization can lose before causing harm or risk to its business or customers. It is a measure or guideline for disaster recovery planning and data preservation. RPOs return to a previous point when your data existed in a usable format, most often from a recent save or backup.

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