IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Threats Catalogue - Force Majeure Remarks
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T 1.10 Failure of a wide area network
If time-critical IT applications are executed on IT systems connected via wide
area networks, the damage and consequential damage arising from a network
failure is severe if no counter-measures are implemented (e.g. linkage to a
second communications network).
Due to the liberalisation of the domestic German telecommunications market,
Deutsche Telekom AG is not the only company which now offers services for
data and voice communications. Many other network providers, some of them
very small, compete mutually and with Deutsche Telekom by offering low
communications rates. Customers should therefore inform themselves about
the actual quality of this service by requesting detailed information on backup
strategies and contingency measures from the network providers.
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Otober 2000