Disclosure This threat class pertains to IT assets which possess intrinsic high confidentiality within a firm. The duration of interruption and the degree to which an affected asset is deemed mission critical determines the extent of injury. Natural disasters, power failures, viral infections and Server crashes are some examples of this class of threat. Disaster by Interruption might occur if a corporation's president is flattened by a bus on his way to work, and possessing no contingency plan for restructuring of management or control of operating capital, the concern quickly becomes defunct. Of course, a more common example would be a severe and lengthy network crash.
Disasters occur primarily when assets that have a high availability requirement are destroyed.
For larger concerns, the information is even more frightening. Texas Instruments reckons the loss of revenue to be approximately 3.5 million dollars due to the downtime. Had the plant been destroyed, losses would have been in the billions. Back to top A tough sell Despite the obvious benefits of DRP, the majority of companies still spend only the merest fraction of their IT budgets on this issue. In a perfect world, the appropriate DRP budgetary expenditure is between four and six per cent of the overall IT allowance.