Why There's More to Business Threat Management Than Data Recovery

The thought of IT failure disrupting your organisations ability to access client or corporate information or for that matter, operate at all, fills every business owner with sheer dread. Not only does this risk carry big financial implications but also reputational damage, risking your customers leaving in droves directly into the arms of your competitors.

A significant proportion of companies do have a strong focus on backup and Business Continuity, however the focus is primarily on recovering the infrastructure and resuming normal operations in case of a disaster. This leaves the question: are businesses investing in security and resourcing to guard against loose of business critical services and more importantly data loss?

Statistics state that 20% of all companies will at some point in time suffer from fire, theft, the unpredictability of Mother Nature, terrorism or hardware/software faults. Of those companies without a business continuity plan, a staggering 43% will never re-open, 80% fail within 13 months and a shocking 53% of claimants will never recoup the losses incurred by a disaster.*

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