Disaster Management System as an Element of Risk Management

Sarwar, Dilshad, Ramachandran, M and Hosseinian Far, A (2017) Disaster Management System as an Element of Risk Management. In: Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 630 (1). Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 191-204. ISBN 978-3-319-51064-4

Abstract

Recently, we have witnessed son many natural catastrophies such as earthquakes in Japan, severe floods in the UK, US and many other parts of the world. In addition businesses have been losing tens of billions of dollars because there have been various natural and man-made disasters. However, the Disaster Management System (DMS) and system that have been put in place have proven important means of reducing the risk of damages to businesses, in particular. The DMS can minimize and in some cases, eliminates the risks through technical, management or operational solutions (risk management effort). However, it is virtually impossible to eliminate all risks. Information technology systems, for example, are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions (e.g. short-term power outage, disk drive failure) from a variety of sources such as natural disasters to terrorist actions. In many cases, critical resources may reside outside the organizations control (such as telecommunications or electric power), and the organization may be unable to ensure their availability. This study proposes a model for Disaster Management System as an Element of Risk Management using the PESTLE framework. Thus, an effective Disaster Management System in the form of contingency planning, execution and testing are essential to mitigate the risk of system and service availability. We have developed a global model for Disaster recover planning and management based on the PESTLE framework which can be customized and applied to a variety of disasters prone systems such natural, emergency, IT/Network/Security, Data recovery, and incident-response systems. The main aspect of this model has been currently used and evaluated.

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Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-31...
Item Type:	Book Section
Disciplines:	Computing, Maths, Engineering and Natural Sciences > Computing and Information Systems
Depositing User:	Dilshad Sarwar
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2025 09:32
Last Modified:	22 Sep 2025 09:32
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2503

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