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

Exercise 10

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 Airline

Assets are defined as belongings or possessions. There are many assets in relation to airlines that need to be protected and maintained. The important assets of the airlines can be physical assets or fixed assets.

One type of assets can be related to aircrafts, the component parts of the aircraft such as wings, engine, fuel tank, elevator, spoiler, equipments, cockpit machinery, landing gear, seats and so on. Other assets can be building, vehicles, land, equipments and other machinery.

The other assets can be the financial investors in the airlines. The ground staff, the flying staff such as the pilot and the cabin crew, also forms an important asset of the airlines.