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SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says
Reuters
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 2009
Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up
if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet,
but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning,
Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the
issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused the GAO of having
unrealistic expectations of how the Internet could be managed
if millions began to telework from home at the same time as
bored or sick schoolchildren were playing online, sucking up
valuable bandwidth.
Experts have for years pointed to the potential problem of
Internet access during a severe pandemic, which would be a unique
kind of emergency. It would be global, affecting many areas
at once, and would last for weeks or months, unlike a disaster
such as a hurricane or earthquake.
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