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The Effect of the Iraqi Invasion on Organisations in Kuwait: A Study into Disaster Recovery Plans

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Brian Rossiter

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Abstract

The number of organizations who rely on computerized systems to perform their day-to-day operations and to help them in making the decisions has grown rapidly recently and continues to grow fast. On the other hand, there are hundreds of different types and magnitudes of disasters that strike different parts of the world each year. This in turn brings into sharp focus the necessity for a carefully constructed disaster recovery plan. Therefore, focus on disaster recovery planning has dramatically increased over the last few years. Unfortunately, the significance of having a disaster recovery plan becomes clear only after a disaster strikes. Sometimes this is too late or maybe too expensive. This report looks at the preparations for disasters of Kuwaiti organisations before and after the Iraqi invasion in August 1990. It examines the organisatinal effects of large-scale destruction of the information system infrastructure, the effectiveness of recovery planning when subjected to events far outreaching anticipated norms, and a check on whether organisations realise the importance of disaster recovery plans. It explores many issues such as the types of losses that organisations may face in cases of political disasters such as war, the necessity of testing strategies, the use of off-site backups for avoiding large-scale disasters, and other related factors.


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Author(s): Al-Harbi F, Rossiter BN

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 1997

Pages: 15

Print publication date: 01/06/1997

Source Publication Date: June 1997

Report Number: 587

Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/587.pdf


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