[I.5] Hardware or software failure

Types of assets:

·         [SW] software

·         [HW] computer equipment (hardware)

·         [Media] media

·         [AUX] auxiliary equipment

Dimensions:

1.   [A] availability

Description:

Failures in the equipment and/or programs.  May be due to a defect in origin or may have arisen during the operation of the system.

In specific-purpose systems, it is sometimes difficult to know whether the failure is of physical or logical origin, but this difference is not usually relevant in terms of consequences.

Origin:

Environment (accidental)

Human (accidental or deliberate)

See:

EBIOS:

28 - EQUIPMENT FAILURE

29 - EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION