Briargrove

Briargrove, a multinational organization, has a wide-range of computer systems and applications of which need to communicate with each other quite frequently. However, being that different backup systems are located globally and online, Briargrove only implemented data back-ups and lab test network without having any particular policy or procedure put into place. The impact of not implementing administrative controls is that, a vast amount of management has taken it upon themselves to download unknown software of which has counteracted with the system therefore causing a complete system failure and thereby affecting the organization as a whole entity. Subsequently, after the system failure, Briargrove has been advised to provide both a
With the systems essentially having no downtime, Briargrove has scheduled their servers to back up every six hours (12am, 6am, 12pm, 6pm Central Standard Time) with other backup systems throughout globally just in case one of the systems does not potentially back up. When the failure accorded, it not only affected the organizations desktop stations, but it also greatly impacted the organizations laptops as well. Immediately after the issues were reported to the appropriate management, it was quite obvious that S.M.A.R.T.E.R goal needed to be implemented throughout the organization. Being that the greatest impact to any system failure is to not have a system backup, luckily Briargrove did not have to be exposed to this type of loss because of the backups that were previously mention in other locations from server to server. From this incident, one take-away that Briargrove was able to have is that regardless of the program that is utilized, it is detrimental for an organization to have a backup offsite in the case of a natural