Data Integrity and Disaster Recovery: Course Assignment Report

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of data integrity and disaster recovery through the analysis of several real-world incidents. The student explores the 2014 Home Depot data breach, examining what occurred and the company's response, and the fire at the FAA facility in Chicago, analyzing what went wrong, what went right, and the potential role of risk assessment. The assignment also investigates the importance of disaster recovery and business impact analysis, discusses disaster recovery planning, and examines the 2003 blackout and its impact on businesses. The student provides insights into these events, drawing on provided resources and offering detailed analyses of the failures and successes of the organizations involved. The assignment emphasizes the importance of robust data protection, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity strategies in mitigating risks and ensuring operational resilience.

Running head: DATA INTEGRITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
Data Integrity and Disaster Recovery
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1) The 2014 Home Depot data breach
The organisation of Home Depot was dealing with a major security incident where it
was reported that the entire organisation I was suffering from huge breaches involving their
credit and debit cards all over the Canadian and United States stores. However it was reported
to the customers that no PIN off the debit card were compromised in the supposed breach
("Home Depot breach — Krebs on Security", 2020). The data that was stolen from the
customers were on sale in online crime shop, there was a possibility that these information
could be used for counterfeiting other credit cards. They have been several reports about
utilisation of these information for other forging and fraud cases for which the customers
where in a state of panic. This is because, the organisation did not take any action for recover
from the data breach and did not even secure the customers by informing them not to share
any information about their credit cards and debit cards thereafter.
2) The fire at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility in Chicago, Illinois
(2014)
The fire at Federal Aviation Administration was not an accident but an arson at the
Air Traffic Control Centre which made the Chicago Airport shut down. The agency had no
fix for preventing this shutdown and this resulted into paralysis of the air traffic across the
entire country ("NPR Choice page", 2020). The inability of the organisation of having
disaster recovery system was the reason that went wrong. What went right was a backup plan
that the agency had for safeguarding the ground staff. It would have been better idea if the
organisation had a disaster control system for occurrences of such arsons.
3) Disaster Recovery and Business Impact Analysis
The highlighted points for disaster recovery and business impact analysis is is
important to learn as both these highlighted areas are related to one another. This is because
the key strategy for disaster recovery planning works to make a positive impact on the

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business assessment ("Disaster recovery: Risk assessment and business impact analysis",
2020). Disaster impacts on a business in a negative way and disaster recovery analyses the
impact to mitigate the negative impact led by the disaster to make the business recover to its
initial place.
4) Disaster Recovery Planning: How far is far enough?
The idea of vicinity for disaster recovery is the first step where it is determined how
the backup plan of restarting the recovery again would begin from. The idea of vicinity is not
about how safe for a place is from the occurrence of disaster but it must begin from mapping
of the probable threats to the company ("Disaster Recovery Planning - How Far is Far
Enough? - CIO Update", 2020). Before deciding a close vicinity, it is required that the best
backup plan for having a recovery would not only be far from the disaster but also the
mapping should understand the logistics so that their recovery would not take too long.
5) The Blackout of 2003
In the blackout of 2003 a power outage in the north eastern and western United States
what such severe that most of the areas did not get their power back in 48 hours ("THE
BLACKOUT OF 2003, 2020). It was natural that several businesses where impacted by the
blackout of 2003 and one of them were SunGard availability services. Effectively reacted to
this incident as they had done testing procedures for the preparation which came to their use 3
years later (Carr, 2020). This means that they had a disaster recovery plan.
6) A firm impacted by the 9/11 attacks and insight into what went wrong with their
BC/DR
They were several bankruptcies and disappearance of several organisations but there
also wear many air carriers that almost vanished from the market. One of them were the
Turkish Airlines that did not have a recognised disaster control system ("Air Carrier - 1120

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Words | Bartleby", 2020). The closing down of the organisation was due to misinterpretation
of a closer vicinity.

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