Glossary
What is Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifies critical business processes and quantifies the operational, financial, legal and reputational impact of disrupting them over time.
The BIA is the foundation of continuity planning: it tells you what to protect first and how fast you must recover. From it you derive recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTPD) and a criticality tier for each process.
Resilira scores each process on a fixed 4×5 matrix — four impact categories (financial, operational, legal/regulatory, reputational) across five horizons (1h, 4h, 24h, 72h, 1 week) — and auto-derives RTO, RPO, MTPD and a 0–100 criticality score, updating live as you edit.
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Resilira turns these concepts into a running program — BIA, plans and compliance, audit-ready in days.