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zt_bak_005 — Site Recovery replication policy uses inadequate RPO

Summary

Severity: High · Pillar: Workload · Chain role: ENABLER

Description

Azure Site Recovery replication policies with an RPO (recovery point objective) of 30 minutes or worse leave too much time between replication snapshots — a ransomware or data-corruption event discovered 20 minutes after impact may not have a clean recovery point within the RPO window. For production workloads, RPO <= 15 minutes is the baseline; mission-critical should target 5 minutes.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 CP-9, CP-10
NIST 800-207 Tenet 4 - Access to individual enterprise resources is granted on a per-session basis
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1490
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Impact
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 4
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/backup/zt_bak_005.rego.

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