Re: Year 2000 Disaster Recovery Plans

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

It would be interesting to hear the auditing firm's expectations in the very 
areas you ask about.  For some reason I get this under-lying feeling that if 
you were to ask them, they'd smile and show you their modest proposal for 
exploring just those questions.  Maybe it is the cynic creeping through....


In <000001be6d5a$f6c2d340$16cd99ce@mikecornwell>, on 03/13/99 
   at 09:07 AM, "Mike Cornwell" <mike@mcornwell.com> said:

>. We just went though a general accounting audit by a new
>firm and one of the areas that they had exception with in MIS was the
>lack of this plan.

>How detailed are other companies being when putting together such plans?
>Do you base the plan on the fact that you have no computers at that time
>and devise completely manual systems? And what is the scope of this type
>of contingency plan? Do you plan for just a couple of days, a week,
>month, or indefinitely.

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