Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

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

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Recovery Time Objective

The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time duration during or after a disaster that can elapse without an enterprise restoring its processes or services to acceptable levels before it will experience unendurable consequences associated with the disruption.

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