Sherif Orange County Sheriff's Department Sheriff-coroner Sandra Hutchens June 3, 2014 Honorable Glenda Sanders*

The Sheriff's Department has both its primary production and backup mainframe computers and critical server platforms at its own data center. Those computers run most of the Sheriff's critical applications, including Field, Booking, Jail, Criminal History and Records, and interfaces to outside databases such as the CJIS, DOJ, DMV, etc. A significant physical disaster event or cyber-attack disabling that data center would almost completely disrupt the Sheriff's major law enforcement and public safety and protection functions. There is no plan in place to recover the Sheriff's datacenter functions at another location. Response: Agrees with finding. Although the Sheriff's Department understands the importance of Disaster Recovery, there is currently not a fully functional Disaster Recovery System in place. Attempts to acquire additional funding for such a system have been unsuccessful. RECOMMENDATIONS