This slide continues the discussion of essential activities a firm performs to maximize security and control, here looking at planning for activities should a disaster occur, such as a flood, earthquake, or power outage. Note that disaster recovery plans focus primarily on the technical issues involved in keeping systems up and running, such as which files to back up and the maintenance of backup computer systems or disaster recovery services. The text provides the example of MasterCard, which maintains a duplicate computer center in Kansas City, Missouri, to serve as an emergency backup to its primary computer center in St. Louis.
Ask students why it is important that both business managers and information systems specialists work together on these plans.