You're reading from ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC®) Exam Guide A primer on GRC and an exam guide for the most recent and rigorous IT risk certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236902

Length 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Shobhit Mehta

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Governance, Risk, and Compliance and CRISC

2. Chapter 1: Governance, Risk, and Compliance FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: CRISC Practice Areas and the ISACA Mindset

4. Part 2: Organizational Governance, Three Lines of Defense, and Ethical Risk Management

5. Chapter 3: Organizational Governance, Policies, and Risk Management

6. Chapter 4: The Three Lines of Defense and Cybersecurity

7. Chapter 5: Legal Requirements and the Ethics of Risk Management

8. Part 3: IT Risk Assessment, Threat Management, and Risk Analysis

9. Chapter 6: Risk Management Life Cycle

10. Chapter 7: Threat, Vulnerability, and Risk

11. Chapter 8: Risk Assessment Concepts, Standards, and Frameworks

12. Chapter 9: Business Impact Analysis, and Inherent and Residual Risk

13. Part 4: Risk Response, Reporting, Monitoring, and Ownership

14. Chapter 10: Risk Response and Control Ownership

15. Chapter 11: Third-Party Risk Management

16. Chapter 12: Control Design and Implementation

17. Chapter 13: Log Aggregation, Risk and Control Monitoring, and Reporting

18. Part 5: Information Technology, Security, and Privacy

19. Chapter 14: Enterprise Architecture and Information Technology

20. Chapter 15: Enterprise Resiliency and Data Life Cycle Management

21. Chapter 16: The System Development Life Cycle and Emerging Technologies

22. Chapter 17: Information Security and Privacy Principles

23. Part 6: Practice Quizzes

24. Chapter 18: Practice Quiz – Part 1

25. Chapter 19: Practice Quiz – Part 2

26. Index

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Recovery objectives

As we saw in Figure 15.1, BC planning typically begins with a BIA. The goal of a BIA is to identify the critical systems and services and ensure that sufficient controls are put in place so they operate within their recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO), which are two key metrics to determine the criticality of an application.

The RPO is the maximum amount of data that an organization can afford to lose without a material impact, whereas the RTO is the maximum amount of time an application can remain unavailable before having a material impact on the business.

A similar metric to the RPO is the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD), that is, the maximum amount of time stakeholders are willing to accept for a business process outage that includes all impact considerations.

These metrics are illustrated in the following figure: