CHAPTER 2: DATA DISASTERS
‘There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.’
Richard Bach
This chapter deals with the various ways in which an organisation’s data can be exposed to risk and the possible prevention methods.
What is data?
Data is generally defined as ‘factual information, especially information organised for analysis or used to reason or make decisions’. An organisation may have various kinds of data in various formats, for example, important finance documents in Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets, computer files in Microsoft® Word® documents, databases, e-mails, information on members of staff and customer details. Different organisations view data with varying importance. For example, ...
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