, 2004-11-15
The fine print in an insurance policy becomes an issue when a bizarre chain of IT disasters leaves a company without a single copy of the source code to its flagship product.
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, 2004-11-15 The fine print in an insurance policy becomes an issue when a bizarre chain of IT disasters leaves a company without a single copy of the source code to its flagship product.
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Disaster recovery is the issue. It sounds like they had very little in the way of a disaster recovery plan.
A) Backups need to be on secured media as well as HDDs. Something like a CD, DVD, tape, USB thumb drive, etc.
B) Backups should come in three flavors:
i) quick restore (on site HDD)
ii) basic restore (on site (in a fireproof safe) and off site (in a fireproof safe) recent backups. These must be on some removable media that is stable (eg CD, DVD, tape, etc)
iii) archive (off site (fireproof safe) and seperated from ii)
A paper copy of source seems silly....I smell a scam.
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