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Reporter: PMO
Departments concerned and in fact the Government Data Processing Agency will be carrying out inspections of all these installations in departments within the next year to a year and a half to ensure that these preventative measures are being carefully and strictly adhered to.
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MR CHEONG:
funds you are going to seek from the Finance Committee in future
is going to cover the possibility that the hardware of the computers is damaged by fire and flood because your softwares can have a duplicate set of softwares stored elsewhere?
SASI: Yes, that's why the idea of setting up two centres, separately, is to ensure that if the basic system is damaged, then we have the back-up system put in other locations that can still
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I suppose your disaster recovery plan, the
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MR CHEONG: Well, most of your hardware installations are,
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I presume, housed in multi-storey buildings ?
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SASI: That's right.
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MR CHEONG: And they would be air conditioned ?
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SASI: Yes.
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MR CHEONG: Now, in my own industry which is spinning, there is a system whereby to prevent the spread of fire, the air conditioning ducts are equipped with trap doors and smoke detectors. If a certain level is being detected, the trap doors will automatically drop. Do you consider that as one of the measures ? 31
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SASI: I think the sort of protection measures which are being considered for the protection of the existing system would involve automatic cut-off of the air-conditioning system. There is a device, as Mr Cheong points out, the use of automatic trap doors
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