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Date:
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Reporter:
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CHAIRMAN:
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Good morning. We shall continue the Committee's The first item this morning is "Disaster recovery planning for Government computer installations. May I invite the Secretary for Administrative Services and Information, Mr James So, to appear before the Committee. Good morning, Mr So.
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SASI: Good morning.
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CHAIRMAN: With regard to the Director of Audit's Report paragraphs 48 to 52 on "Disaster recovery planning for Government computer installations", Mr K C Chan.
MR CHAN: Thank you.
Whilst noting that the matter has not yet reached the Chief Secretary's Committee, that it has taken the Secretary for Administrative Services and Information seven months to prepare a draft paper on disaster recovery planning, which was subsequently considered by the DFS as being inadequate for the decision-making process, the Committee wishes to enquire of the Secretary for Administrative Services and Information whether he 20 would agree that the matter had not received the necessary degree
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SASI: Mr Chairman, I don't agree with what Mr Chan said. 24 The Computer Committee has already drawn up a disaster recovery 25 plan and this plan has been put to the Chief Secretary's Committee on the 3rd November and has been endorsed by the Chief Secretary's Committee. A Finance Committee paper has now been prepared and will be considered by the Finance Committee on the 10th December for the necessary funds to implement the plan.
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The reason which took the Administration a few months to draw up a plan was because we need to determine the degree of
I would criticality of the various systems used in Government. like to say that the disaster recovery plan which has now been drawn up will cover 48 out of a total of 54 systems being used in Government and all these systems are being identified as critical. The criteria which we use to determine criticality are four;
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