T 0.7 Major Events in the Environment

Major events of every kind can impede the proper operation of a public body or a company. They include amongst other things street festivals, concerts, sporting events, industrial action or demonstrations. Riots in connection with such events can have additional consequences, like intimidation of employees up to the use of force against the staff or the building.

Examples:

• During the hot summer months, a demonstration took place nearby a computing centre. The situation escalated resulting in violence. In a side street, a window of the computing centre area was still opened, through which a demonstrator gained access and used the opportunity to steal hardware with important data stored on it.
• During the construction of a big funfair, electric cables were cut by mistake. This led to a failure in a computing centre connected through it. This failure however, could be backed-up by the emergency power supply.