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Reporter: PMO
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CHAIRMAN:
So we should expect a full system back-up, if
12/18 months is correct, by the middle of 1988 ?
SASI: That is the estimated time-frame.
MR CHEONG: Mr Secretary, why is there a need for a disaster
7 recovery plan in your view?
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SASI: Well, I think the need is demonstrated by the fact that a lot of Government activities are being computerised now and should there be an inciden t of fire or flooding, serious flooding, all the data which are used and stored in these computers, would run the risk of being damaged or destroyed and this would seriously hamper the working of Government to a very great extent.
MR CHEONG: So it is by fire and serious flooding ?
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Yes.
MR CHEONG: Are your main-frame installations right now or the four criteria which you have mentioned, the critical criteria that you have identified, are the computers being housed in the basement of any buildings or top floors, or middle, or whatever ?
SASI: These systems are being housed at various levels within Government buildings, but I would wish to say that for the existing 27 systems, wherever they are housed, the Government Data Processing
Agency, in fact, has drawn up a series of preventive measures to advise the Departments responsible for running these systems, to ensure that they are adequately protected against a number of elements. First of all, these measures aim at protection against fire and smoke. Secondly, these aim at protection against water damage.
Thirdly, protection against unauthorised access, this is designed to protect unauthorised leakage of information and data. And fourthly, protection against burglary and theft. So a series of 36 preventive measures have been drawn up and have been advised to
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