Medic Drugs Inc., a pharmaceutical firm, provides discounted prescription drugs through direct mail. The company has a small systems staff that design md writes MedicDrugs' customized software With he addition of a small staff of systems developers and software Technicians. MedicDragshes decided to maintain an in-house data processing function, rather than outsource it to a service bureau MedicDrugs has experienced significant sales growth due to the increased prices of prescription drug Medical insurance companies have been restricting reimbursements to minimize increases in premiums MedicDrugs sa purchased its own computer hardware because of its growth. The computer center is located on the ground floor of its two-story headquarters building The large plate-glass window allow people antering the building to observe the activity in the computer centar Because the computer center often gets hot in the afternoons when the sunshines through the windon, the doar as sometimes left propped open while the computer center employees are working it u always closed when no one is in the computer center The computer area is equipped with balon gas fire suppression equipment. restricted access requiring a 4-digit code for entry which is assigned to the employee based on their birth date and an interruptable power supply system Medic Drugs has hired a small computer operations to operate this computer center. To handle Medic Drug' current level of business, the operations staff on a three-shift schedule, eight hours each, five days per week. Because there is little activity during the graveyard shift front midnight to s 2.mthere is no supervisor in the computer center during that time, altirough the day supervisors rotate being on call needed MedicDrugsystems and programming staff, now located in the same building, have access to the computer center and can test new programs and make program changes when the operation is not available. As the systems and programming staff is small and the works demands have rapidly increased systems and programming documentation is der eloped only when time is available Periodically, but not on a scheduled basis, the company backs up its programs and date files, storing them at an off-site location to blocks from the main office Unfortunately due to a tropical depresiocamping 48 inches of rain in two days. Medic Drugs building recently experienced severe fooding of three feet into the first loot affecting not only the computer hardware, but also the data and program files that were on site The plate glas window cracked, keeping the air conditioning system from cooling the center properly lo addition, the back-up les at the off-site location were destroyed Required 1 Describe for internal control wenses related to computer security that esisted at MedicDrags Inc. prior to the flood occurrence 18 2. Describe two component that should be incorporated in a formal disaster recovery plan in order that Medic Drugs Inc. can become operational within 72 hours after disaster affects its computer operations capability. (mar) Medic Drugs Inc., a pharmaceutical firm, provides discounted prescription drugs through direct mail. The company has a small systems staff that design md writes MedicDrugs' customized software With he addition of a small staff of systems developers and software Technicians. MedicDragshes decided to maintain an in-house data processing function, rather than outsource it to a service bureau MedicDrugs has experienced significant sales growth due to the increased prices of prescription drug Medical insurance companies have been restricting reimbursements to minimize increases in premiums MedicDrugs sa purchased its own computer hardware because of its growth. The computer center is located on the ground floor of its two-story headquarters building The large plate-glass window allow people antering the building to observe the activity in the computer centar Because the computer center often gets hot in the afternoons when the sunshines through the windon, the doar as sometimes left propped open while the computer center employees are working it u always closed when no one is in the computer center The computer area is equipped with balon gas fire suppression equipment. restricted access requiring a 4-digit code for entry which is assigned to the employee based on their birth date and an interruptable power supply system Medic Drugs has hired a small computer operations to operate this computer center. To handle Medic Drug' current level of business, the operations staff on a three-shift schedule, eight hours each, five days per week. Because there is little activity during the graveyard shift front midnight to s 2.mthere is no supervisor in the computer center during that time, altirough the day supervisors rotate being on call needed MedicDrugsystems and programming staff, now located in the same building, have access to the computer center and can test new programs and make program changes when the operation is not available. As the systems and programming staff is small and the works demands have rapidly increased systems and programming documentation is der eloped only when time is available Periodically, but not on a scheduled basis, the company backs up its programs and date files, storing them at an off-site location to blocks from the main office Unfortunately due to a tropical depresiocamping 48 inches of rain in two days. Medic Drugs building recently experienced severe fooding of three feet into the first loot affecting not only the computer hardware, but also the data and program files that were on site The plate glas window cracked, keeping the air conditioning system from cooling the center properly lo addition, the back-up les at the off-site location were destroyed Required 1 Describe for internal control wenses related to computer security that esisted at MedicDrags Inc. prior to the flood occurrence 18 2. Describe two component that should be incorporated in a formal disaster recovery plan in order that Medic Drugs Inc. can become operational within 72 hours after disaster affects its computer operations capability. (mar)