Contingency Planning Case Study te ves Friday night. All the employees had long since left for the day, except for a select group of senior staff who were crowded around the conference table with binders open and index cand in hand. Hedda Linn, who was facilitating the meeting turned to Al Apostino, who was the acting incident manager for this meeting and said, "It's your turn At looked at the next index card in his deck. The two work made him grimace. "Power" Hedda del "How widespread and for how long "Beats me. Al replied. That's all I know Al flipped through his tattered copy of the disaster recovery plan, finally setting on a page. He looked for the communications coordinator Jeffrey Noak. Jeffrey, a more experienced security architect, wat responsible for all communications during this disaster recovery practice session "Okay, le he said. Please call the power company and ask how widespread the other, who was reading the same blader page as M. looked up. "Okay, 18 let you know as soon as I have an answer. Anything Just a minute." As Al looked for the next step. Tana Stain forth the second shift pervisor said. "We've about 45 minutes of hattery time, but the generators need to be manually started. I'm going to need power to maintain betwork operations "Right" Al said. He turned to Meredith Isanes who represented the building management company that leased space to ATI. "Can you get a team to the greator and get it going Meredith said. "Okay. I'm on it. We already turned on the heaters. It takes 10 to 15 minutes from a cold start, and in this weather it's a very cold start. We need five to seven more minutes before we can can the motor and three to four minutes after that we can generate power Everyone at the table laughed. The weather outside was 92 degrees and humid, but the disaster scenario they were rehearsing was a massive snowstorm impacting operations "How long will the generators run? Nadeed Meredith flipped a page in her binder and replied, "Days. If we have t, we can siphon ges from employee whides with the reserve tank, supplemented by us from employee vehicles, we have plenty of fuel provided the generator doesn't break down Www That's a relict smiled as he led back in his seat. "OK, what's our next step lanced over at Hedda. Hedda said, "Good job everybody. Al, flip the next card Review the scenario above, and then consider these questions: -In enin group was pr: cing for a show emergency. Other than power outage, what incident cards would you expect to see? For each of the incident cards you listed, what would be the proper response of the organization? 2-How often should an organization rehearsal of the contingency plans? 3-Who should coordinate rehearsal of the contingency plans? Why would that be the appropriate person? 4-Notice that Amanda Wilson was not at this rehearsal. Do you think it is important that the CIO, or even the CEO participate in this kind of readiness exercises? Why or why not? S-How can you make progress in contingeney planning in the face of resistance from upper management