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VerifiedSecurity and Risk Management

A security architect is evaluating plans for an application that has a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The current design places all application infrastructure in a single co-location data center. Which security principle is the architect assessing?

Explanation

A Recovery Point Objective defines the maximum acceptable duration of data loss during a disaster and drives backup, replication, and recovery-site design. Keeping all infrastructure in one co-location data center creates a site-level disaster risk, so the relevant principle is disaster recovery.

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