Patent ID: 8655939

Claim:
A method of processing data in a distributed computing system, coupled over a communications network, to survive an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack wherein said distributed computing system having select content important to an enterprise operating said distributed computing system, said select content represented by one or more predetermined words, characters, images, data elements or data objects, the method of processing data comprising: as part of said distributed computing system, providing a proximal select content data store and a plurality of geographically distributed distal select content data stores, providing all stores with respective access controls thereat and all stores being operatively coupled over said communications network; initiating a test for an EMP attack on said proximal select content data store; processing a data input through said distributed computing system to obtain said select content and one or more of contextually and taxonomically associated select content; during the test, extracting from said data input said select content and one or more of contextually and taxonomically associated select content found in one or more of said proximal select content data store; during the test, storing said select content and contextually and taxonomically associated select content in one or more of said geographically distributed distal select content data stores of said plurality of geographically distributed distal select content data stores, said geographically distributed distal select content data stores being geographically remote from said proximal select content data store; further processing said data input and geographically distributing, with at least one data process from the group of data processes, said data input over said plurality of geographically distributed distal select content data stores, said one data process being from the group of data processes including: (i) a copy process, (ii) a data extract process, (iii) a data archive process, (iv) a data distribution process and (v) a copy, extract, archive and distribute process with a sequential and supplemental data destruction process; and permitting reconstruction of the processed data only in the presence of a respective access control for each of said proximal select content data store and said plurality of geographically distributed distal select content data stores.