Recovery when disaster strikes

Recovery when disaster strikes

10 July, 2008, by Ben Chai



Tags: Events, FIRST, FIRST2008


In this year’s 2008 FIRST security conference, keynote speaker, Microsoft's George Stathakpolous showed us some statistics which indicated that Japan had the least amount of malware infections in the world by a huge order of magnitude.

In addition Japan is a country that has had to cope with a large amount of natural disasters and yet they are still one of the most feared economies in the world. 

 

For example in 1995, one of the worst known earthquakes known hit Japan and you may be interested to read the 10 year retrospective report on the earthquake from Risk management Solutions Inc.

Losses from the Kobe Earthquake (also known as the Great Hanshin Earthquake) were truly immense.

In all, over 6,400 people were killed and 15,000 injured. Fires consumed 82 hectares (203 acres) of urban land, and more than 400,000 buildings were damaged, of which 100,000 collapsed completely.

Ben Chai Posted by Ben Chai on 10 July, 2008

Ben Chai is a freelance writer and technical consultant. He is the author of several Microsoft books and is the co-owner of incomingthought.com, a company that specialises in security white papers.



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