Research Paper on:
Catastrophic Survival

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often been to plan for smaller emergencies, but believe that the catastrophes will not happen. However, disasters large and small occur everyday (Sikich, 1995, 1993). In considering the case  provided by the student, Cartwright Fairbrother plc, this is a company that relies heavily in an electronic infrastructure with information as the main sector of the business. This may be  seen as increasing some risks, but also as a source of potential advantages. There are numerous sites across twenty cities and the mainstay of their business is information regarding  risks. This means that the range of potential disasters are wised spread. Any event that is unplanned, either singular, or a sequence of events, that will have a negative  impact on Cartwright Fairbrother plc can be seen as a crisis. The risks include natural disasters, such as floods and hurricanes, financial manipulation, which may occurs though hacking or though  internal fraud, however, this later will usually be dealt with through security rather than in disaster/crisis planning, social disruption, such as riots or even revolution, increased political regulations as well  as other disasters such as terrorist attract of other malicious damage, including fire. There are also many smaller disasters that should be recognised, that need to be addressed, especially  as the company holds a great deal of sensitive information. These may be computer failures or software failures as well as general breaches of security and any event thqt will  interrupt power. It has been perceived that many of the failures that are felt today are as a result of hardware failure.  However, a misconception has also accompanied this development, and this has been that the major factor in a disaster recovery is the purchase of reliable hardware. Although this is important