Paper Topic:

�Emergency Planning and Response for Vital Digital Records and Essential Information

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EMERGENCY PLANNING AND RESPONSE (EPR ) FOR VITAL DIGITAL RECORDS AND ESSENTIAL

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CONTENTS

TOC \o "1-3 " \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l "_Toc7 " Introduction PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 2

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc8 " National Level Catastrophic Events PAGEREF _Toc8 \h 2

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc9 " Concepts of an Emergency Response Program for Critical Records PAGEREF _Toc9 \h 3

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc0 " Criticality Ranking For Records PAGEREF _Toc0 \h 4

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc1 " Hazards and Risks to Vital Records PAGEREF

_Toc1 \h 7

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc2 " Protection Strategies for Vital Records PAGEREF _Toc2 \h 8

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc3 " Loss Assessment PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 12

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc4 " Record Recovery Techniques PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 14

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc5 " Selected Bibliography PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 16

Introduction

The need to enhance the security and total protection of vital information and critical digital records in an organization or business environment is of great importance . Prediction of the occurrence of emergency is a complex process yet the need to enhance business continuity through proper planning and putting down of strategic business processes to safeguard information continues to be of utmost importance (Handmer and Smith 1994 . Putting in place the strategic data management and record recovery mechanisms helps to enhance protection of vital governmental and banking records and the existing digital data in the event of a national level catastrophic event (NLCE . This paper describes and analyses the different vital required actions that need to be taken in the event of a...

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