Risk Management - Contingency Planning
The major foreseeable risks to the small veterinary clinic are the power loss, failure of the hardware, theft of the client’s data, and the natural disasters.
Electrical power outage: power loss pose a major risk to the clinic. A bad storm could cause power loss for several hours, or even for days. Without electrical power the clinic could not for instance run air conditioning equipment, could experience issues with electrical meter or panel, and breakdown of all electronics that include diagnostic systems, freezers and other important devices. The clinic definitely relies on electricity and hence, if there is no power all operations are likely to be at complete stop. If there was work in progress being …show more content…
If in the course of testing the drive is establish to be faulty, then it can be replaced and proper procedures for disposing the drive should be followed as damaged or malfunction storage media may still contain recoverable data. It is important to keep spare storage media to reduce the down time.
Theft of the client’s data: stealing of client’s data that include personal information and financial details may occur due to cyber-attack through hardware theft, virus or malware attacks, server room issues, unexpected patches and updates, and communication system failures. With the rising number of savvier hackers than ever in techniques, it is becoming increasing difficult to combat the data theft entirely. However, if a client’s data is stolen it may result in the client mistrusting the clinic and this will impact on the reputation of the clinic. Therefore, the clinic should on high alert to avert any chance of theft of …show more content…
The natural disasters carry huge risks to the organizations and so to avert the risks, proper training should be provided to the employees within the organization regarding how to tackle the natural disasters, a comprehensive contingency plan should be created in order to enable continuity of the operations after the natural disaster, and mechanisms for back up and restoration of data should be available offsite so that they can be utilized in the event on the unfortunate natural
The major foreseeable risks to the small veterinary clinic are the power loss, failure of the hardware, theft of the client’s data, and the natural disasters.
Electrical power outage: power loss pose a major risk to the clinic. A bad storm could cause power loss for several hours, or even for days. Without electrical power the clinic could not for instance run air conditioning equipment, could experience issues with electrical meter or panel, and breakdown of all electronics that include diagnostic systems, freezers and other important devices. The clinic definitely relies on electricity and hence, if there is no power all operations are likely to be at complete stop. If there was work in progress being …show more content…
If in the course of testing the drive is establish to be faulty, then it can be replaced and proper procedures for disposing the drive should be followed as damaged or malfunction storage media may still contain recoverable data. It is important to keep spare storage media to reduce the down time.
Theft of the client’s data: stealing of client’s data that include personal information and financial details may occur due to cyber-attack through hardware theft, virus or malware attacks, server room issues, unexpected patches and updates, and communication system failures. With the rising number of savvier hackers than ever in techniques, it is becoming increasing difficult to combat the data theft entirely. However, if a client’s data is stolen it may result in the client mistrusting the clinic and this will impact on the reputation of the clinic. Therefore, the clinic should on high alert to avert any chance of theft of …show more content…
The natural disasters carry huge risks to the organizations and so to avert the risks, proper training should be provided to the employees within the organization regarding how to tackle the natural disasters, a comprehensive contingency plan should be created in order to enable continuity of the operations after the natural disaster, and mechanisms for back up and restoration of data should be available offsite so that they can be utilized in the event on the unfortunate natural