Backup and Recovery

Consequences of system failure = 1. Finanical Loss 2. Halt in Trading 3. Customers lose confidence in the business 4. Business image negatively impacted

Potential threats to an ICT System:

• Physical Failure
• Hardware Failure
• Software Failure
• Computer Crime and abuse
• Invalid Data
• System design failure

Back up strategy factors:

• Best time to back up
• location of back up
• type of back up
• whose responsibility it is to back up
• media that will be used
• how often to back up
• log of back ups…