Risk of Electronically Stored Data

Along with increased productivity, however, computer technology has introduced greater risk into organizational environments. At one end of this new risk spectrum, access to vital data may be denied by temporary power outages. At the opposite pole, however, entire data bases may be destroyed by both natural phenomena or intentional human actions. Thus, contemporary organizations must be prepared to respond to and recover from major losses of electronically stored data, as well as exploit the many benefits offered by computer technology.

Statement of the Problem Data stored in electronic information systems may be lost, damaged, or compromised by means other that the actions of individuals gaining illegal access to such systems. Both natural and manmade disasters, although lowprobability in character, hold the potential to cause highlevel data loss and damage. Thus, the prudent administrator or manager will devise and implement some sort of data recovery planning to protect information systems against the effects of such events.

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opment of the individual Muslim. Individual spiritual development is the basis from which further development stems. This Islamic concept is highly relevant to the functioning of organizational management systems in Islamic societies. Prevailing Social and Political Conditions in Saudi Arabia The social and political conditions that prevail in Saudi society, together with the ways in which they developed, affect the ways in which Saudi administrators and managers react to issues and incidents. These conditions and their development are traced and discussed in this section. The modern state of Saudi Arabia came into being on 20 May 1927, when a treaty was signed between the United Kingdom and Ibn Sa`ud, whereby the former recognized the complete independence and dominions of the latter (Paxton, 1991, p. 1098). Since the founding of the modern state of Saudi Arabia in 1927, members of the Sa`ud family and other individuals comprising the societal elite in the country have continued to exercise dominant roles in the development and administration of the country. For a state in the next to the last decade in the twentieth century, Saudi Arabia is somewhat unique in the context of the continuing dominant role of a sin
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