Negligence, improper use, but also untrained handling, can lead to the destruction of equipment or data media that can seriously disrupt the operation of the IT system.

Furthermore, there is the risk that important information is lost due to the destruction, which may not be recovered at all or may only be recovered with great effort.

Examples:

• An employee in one company used his knowledge of the fact that an important server was sensitive to excessive operating temperatures and blocked the ventilation slots of the power supply fan by hiding an object behind the server. Two days later, the hard disk in the server malfunctioned due to overheating, and the server was down for several days.
• An employee became so angry after his system crashed repeatedly that he let his anger out on his workstation computer. He kicked the computer so hard that the hard disk was damaged to the point of uselessness. The data stored on this hard disk could only be partially reconstructed by restoring a backup from the day before.
• A spilled cup of coffee or a puddle of water after watering plants can penetrate into an IT system and cause short circuits.

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