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The EDP Audit, Control, and Security Newsletter
Volume 31, 2004 - Issue 12
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Preventing Failure: The Value of Performing A Single Point of Failure Analysis for Critical Applications and Systems

Laurence J. Wolf Senior manager in Deloitte & Touche's Infrastructure & Security Systems Practice. He has 18 years of experience in systems, networks, software development, and resilient design, implementation and testing, as well as business continuity planning. He has spent the past 12 years working at and consulting for Wall Street financial firms and has a degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Pages 14-18 | Published online: 21 Dec 2006
 
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Abstract

Ensuring that a system is resilient requires not only good design and implementation, but also an independent engineering review in the form of a single point of failure analysis. This article presents guidelines for testing prior to any implementation and can prove very useful in meeting the requirements of the users.

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