Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Exercise 12

Answer Exercise for an oil drilling company instead of an airline.

Exercise

For an airline, what are its most important assets? What are the minimal computing resources it would need to continue business for a limited period (up to two days)? What other systems or processes could it use during the period of the disaster?

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Assets and computing resources of an Oil drilling company

Assets are defined as possessions, something that is owned. For an Oil drilling company, the assets are everything that the company owns.

The assets of the company are listed below:

• The oil reserves,

• Employees, labors,

• Generated revenues, and

• All the physical assets such as areas where the oil can be found, the drilling and pumping machinery used, power backup generators, transport facilities, pipelines, and storage tanks.