A Glossary of Risk Related Terms

These terms are commonly used in discussions of risk assessment, particularly in the field of business continuity planning.

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ALE
Alternate Site
Annualized Loss Expectancy
Annualized Rate of Occurrence
Annual Loss Expectancy
Annual Rate of Occurrence
ARO
Asset
Asset Risk
Asset Value
Asynchronous Replication
AV
Backlog
BCDR
BCP
BIA
BS 25999
BS 7799
Business Continuity Planning
Business Impact Analysis
Business Interruption
Call Tree
Chatham House Rule
Checklist Test
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Cold Site
Consortium Agreement
Continuity of Operations Plan
Control Risk
COOP
COPPA
Crate & Ship
Critical Data Point
Critical Functions
Critical Infrastructure
Critical Records
Declaration Fee
Differential Backup
Disaster Recovery Planning
DRP
Electronic Vaulting
Emergent Risk
Emerging Risk
Exposure
Exposure Factor
FEMA
Full Backup
Full Interruption Test
Gap Analysis
Hazard
Hot Site
ICT
Incremental Backup
Inherent Risk
Investment Risk
ISO 17799
ISO 22301
ISO 27301
Lockdown Procedure
MAA
MAO
Maximum Acceptable Outage
Maximum Tolerable Downtime
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption
Minimum Service Level
Mobile Site
MTD
MTPD
MTPOD
Mutual Assistance Agreement
Parallel Test
Peril
Pharming
Phishing
Podslurping
Pure Risk
Quick Ship Ageement
Reciprocal Agreement
Recovery Period
Recovery Point Objective
Recovery Time Objective
Residual Risk
Return on Security Investment
Risk
Risk Analysis
Risk Assessment
Risk Avoidance
Risk Mitigation
Risk Strategy
Risk Tolerance
ROSI
RPO
RTO
Shelter-In-Place Procedure
Simulation Test
Single Loss Expectancy
SLE
Software Escrow Agreement
Speculative Risk
Structured Walk-Through Test
Synchronous Replication
Table-Top Exercise
Warm Site

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