The headquarters of Abi Corporation (AC), a private company with P650 million in annual sales, is located in Tag

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The headquarters of Abi Corporation (AC), a private company with P650 million in annual sales, is located in Taguig. AC provides for its 150 clients an online legal software service that includes data storage and administrative activities for law offices. The company has grown rapidly since its inception three (3) years ago, and its data processing department has expanded to accommodate this growth.
Because AC’s president and sales personnel spend a great deal of time out of the office soliciting new clients, the planning of the information technology (IT) facilities has been left to the data processing professionals. AC recently moved its headquarters into a remodeled warehouse on the outskirts of the city. While remodeling the warehouse, the architects retained much of the original structure, including the wooden- shingled exterior and exposed wooden beams throughout the interior. The minicomputer distributive processing hardware is situated in a large open area with high ceilings and skylights. The openness makes the data processing area accessible to the rest of the staff and encourages a team approach to problem-solving. Before occupying the new facility, city  inspectors declared the building safe; that is, it had adequate fire extinguishers, sufficient exits, and so on. To provide further protection for its large database of client information, AC instituted a tape backup procedure that automatically backs up the database every Sunday evening, avoiding interruption in the daily operations and procedures. All tapes are then labeled and carefully stored on shelves reserved for this purpose in the data processing department. The departmental operator’s manual has instructions on using these tapes to restore the database, should the need arise. A list of home phone numbers of the individuals in the data processing department is available in case of an emergency. AC has recently increased its liability insurance for data loss from P5,000,000 to P10,000,000. This
past Saturday, the building of its headquarters was completely ruined by fire, and the company must now inform its clients that all their information has been destroyed.


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a. Describe at least five (5) computer security weaknesses present in Abi Corporation that made it possible for a disastrous data loss.


b. List at least five (5) components that should have been included in the disaster recovery plan (DRP) of Abi Corporation to ensure computer recovery within 72 hours.


c. What factors, other than those included in the plan itself, should a company consider when formulating a disaster recovery plan? List at least three (3) of them.

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