Lesson 1: Assets

Review Exercises: Toys-to-go.com

Toys-to-go.com, a ten-year pioneer in the eCommerce community, recently lost an estimated $120,000 in profits due to unexpected downtime on their company's Web server. Initially, users began complaining that their transactions were cut off mid-way through the ordering process. However, the problem progressed to the point that customers couldn't even view items in the online catalog. In an effort to stop the problem from getting any worse, the team at Toys-to-go.com had to take the servers off-line and try to fix the problem.

Given the above description, which of the following factors probably contributed to the company's problem? Which of these might they have problems with when attempting to repair the problem?

Hardware Availability & Support
Hardware Emissions
Information Assets: Trust Issues
Software Availability
Source Stability
Source of the Hardware
Physical Security