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Although almost all UK companies back up their critical IT systems and data, more than a quarter of them still do not have a disaster recovery plan in place. Half of those that do have plans, fail to test them. Also, 15% of companies do not take their backups off-site.

This is despite the fact that 92% of businesses now consider disaster recovery planning an important driver of their IT expenditure.

These are among the early findings of the 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) carried out by a consortium, led by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR). The full results of the survey will be launched at Infosecurity Europe in London, 22-24 April.

The survey shows that 58% of UK businesses would suffer significant business disruption if their IT systems were not available for a day – the highest figure recorded since the surveys began. This rises to 70% of large companies.

Some 68% of companies polled believe that business continuity in a disaster situation is a very important driver of their information security expenditure, and a further 24% say it is important. Only 2% say it is not very important.

Check out this interesting article about disaster recovery and backups. I highlighted this to illustrate that there remains a need for many businesses to think about their IT infrastructure in terms of data recovery and system availability. Not just in terms of the regulations relating to availability or data recovery for certain sectors, but also from a liability/business risk standpoint, gone are the days (for many) where as a customer I’ll put up with “sorry the system’s down, can you call back”, too many of those kind of calls can easily lead to loss of custom, loss of revenue, let’s remember that in most cases it’s a lot cheaper to have a returning customer than have to appeal to a new market, to get and retain new customers, do check it out.

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