It gets scant attention compared to the year 2000 crisis, but with efforts dedicated to identifying potential failures of date-processing code, network server safety might get the attention it deserves. Some agencies are using servers to transfer code to remote processing centers, temporarily set up for the purpose of examining their systems' vulnerability to date code errors. Such servers are only a temporary element of the 2000 solution. But maybe they shouldn't be temporary. Few agencies are taking this approach.
Agencies concerned with network backup are, at best, implementing only pieces of a solution.
Some hardware manufacturers guarantee that their equipment has 99.99 percent uptime. In fact, there are more failures from operator error than from hardware failure. Backing up LANs should be mandatory. Too few organizations pay attention to the vulnerability of those networks to the degree that they deal with data center vulnerability. Measuring the cost of a safer approach might be difficult, but so is measuring the value of lost data when access to a system is lost.