Disaster countermeasures for information and communication technology
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The employment of information and communication technology (ICT) causes increase of efficiency and quality of working processes. But thereby the dependency on technique increases too. A return to manual processes is often impossible.
The concentration of technical infrastructures is senseful and necessary for organizational and economical reasons. But this increases the vulnerability to occurrences of local expansion contrary to decentralized systems.
Unpreventable calamities can stint the availability of ICT-Services : spacious, long lasting power blackouts, flood, earthquake, terroristic attacks or air crashes, damages owing to fire or fire-extinguishing water, etc.
Therefore it is essential to take precautions for outage prevention and substitutions.
Emergency plans for several systems or services usually are subject of isolated considerations. Complex interdependencies and iterative correlations of causes and effects are not considered adequate at this. Precautions for cases of disaster require a comprehensive view on organization and technique. It is necessary to bring the separate plans together. Catastrophe tests with all-embracing and correlative monitoring of efficiency of measures to prevent or remedy of failures in cases of catastrophes are necessary to validate plans.
Disaster recovery is a challenge that requires an interdisciplinary view on all correlated dependencies and a step-by-step plan from blackout to business resume.
Finally is to ensure that a comprehensive and up-to-date documentation is available without using technical infrastructures.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
