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ISO/IEC 27031:2011ISO/IEC
Guidelines for information and communication technology readiness for business continuity (IRBC)
The bridge between business continuity and IT. It introduces ICT readiness for business continuity (IRBC) and the metrics that are now common currency: RTO, RPO, and degraded service level objectives.
Official textWho it applies to
- Infrastructure and operations leads
- IT recovery architects
- CISOs
Structuring points
- IT RTOs must sit strictly below business RTOs: restoring an application is not restoring a service
- ICT readiness is designed per service, not per server
- The DR plan is only one part of IRBC: detection, response and recovery all count
Designing, implementing and improving the readiness of information systems to support continuity.