ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During a threat modelling workshop, the business owner states that after a critical outage the application must be fully operational again within two hours, and no more than ten minutes of transactional data may be lost. Which pair of non-functional continuity metrics should the security architect document to capture these requirements?
Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) and Service Level Objective (SLO)
Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) and Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
The maximum acceptable time to restore service is captured by the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), while the maximum allowable period of data loss is captured by the Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Both metrics belong in the non-functional continuity section of the software security requirements. MTBF and MTTR describe reliability and repair metrics, MTD with SLO mixes disaster tolerance with performance targets, and MTTF with MTTD address failure occurrence and detection time. None of those pairs simultaneously conveys the allowed downtime and data-loss window required by the business owner.
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