Editing Business continuity planning (section)

==== Maximum RTO ====
Maximum time constraints for how long an enterprise's key products or services can be unavailable or undeliverable before stakeholders perceive unacceptable consequences have been named as:
* {{visible anchor|Maximum tolerable period of disruption}} (MTPoD)
* Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
* Maximum tolerable outage (MTO)
* Maximum acceptable outage (MAO)<ref>{{cite web |title=Maximum Acceptable Outage (Definition) |url=http://www.riskythinking.com/glossary/maximum_acceptable_outage.php |access-date=4 October 2018 |website=riskythinking.com |publisher=Albion Research Ltd.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BIA Instructions, BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT - WORKSHOP | url=http://www.driecentral.org/biainstructions.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.driecentral.org/biainstructions.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |website=driecentral.org |access-date=4 October 2018 |publisher=Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE) Central}}</ref>

According to ISO 22301 the terms ''maximum acceptable outage'' and ''maximum tolerable period of disruption'' mean the same thing and are defined using exactly the same words.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plain English ISO 22301 2012 Business Continuity Definitions |url=http://www.praxiom.com/iso-22301-definitions.htm |website=praxiom.com |publisher=Praxiom Research Group LTD. |access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref> Some standards use the term ''maximum downtime limit''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncsc.gov.bh/assets/static_images/policies/baseline-cybersecurity-controls-v1.pdf |page=12 |title=Baseline Cyber Security Controls |publisher=[[Ministry of Interior (Bahrain)|Ministry of Interior]] - National Cyber Security Center |year=2022}}</ref>