Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Recovery time objective and recovery point objective are two essential metrics for developing data backup and recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery, and operational resilience plans. RTO ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

What's maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) vs. RTO and RPO? Even before the introduction of the term maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) by the British standard for Business ...

When you write a service-level agreement with one of the groups in your company, how do you make sure that the value they place on the data they leave under your control actually corresponds to the ...

When your network goes down, your business stops. That’s a stark truth we see confirmed daily in incident response—and N-able’s 2026 State of the SOC Report only underscores it. Backup isn’t just an ...

Attackers increasingly target backup systems themselves. Here’s what small businesses need to build a resilient data ...