This article provides information leading to justifying an IT Backup Disaster and Recovery (BDR) solution for your business. This information will provide awareness of data security and identity theft threats through recent enterprise data loss incidents. Finally, the data loss statistics here will assist business owners and CTOs in decision making.
Recent Data Loss Incidents:
Here are a few data loss incidents as reported from Open Security Foundation at their datalossdb (dot) org site. DataLossDB is a research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. The site also shows incidents of thefts of documents, tapes, laptops and other media leading to data lost. These incidents are more recent data losses by large enterprises without a complete backup disaster and recovery solution.
500 records lost on 2011-09-30 by Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Penn Foster 1500 records lost on 2011-09-28 by Saint John Regional Hospital, Horizon Health 4,900,000 records lost on 2011-09-28 by Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), Tricare Management Activity 19,500 records lost on 2011-09-26 by Florida International University
Here are a few statistics about data lost:
83% of businesses still use vulnerable tapes or external disks for data backup. 35% of businesses with tape backup systems test their solution. Those who do test find 76% do work as specified or fail. 60% of companies, who lose all or part of their corporate data this year, will go out of business within 6 months. Over 50% of critical mission data is loaded on unprotected PC desktops and laptops.
Key causes for data loss are:
78% Hardware or system malfunction - There are too many in expensive secured solutions today to fully eliminate tape and disk backups. 11% Human error - Almost 5,000 laptops and PDAs were left in London taxis in 2007. 7% Software corruption or program malfunction - Software corruption or program error is probably the best known form of data loss. If the PC does not boot after this message, most users begin to sweat... Windows an exception 0d has occurred at 0028:C0003C72 0000433F. This was called from 0028:C0059854 00000F43. It may be possible to continue norm Press any key to attempt to continue Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer loose any unsaved information in all applications... 2% Computer viruses - Logical failure is usually caused by corruption of the operating file system. Here, the BIOS can see the hard drive disk but can't see the data files. There are several ways this can happen, including improper shut down of the computer and computer virus infection. 1% Natural disasters 1% Other Only 25% of users frequently back up their files, yet 85% of those same users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data. More than 22% said backing up their PCs was on their to-do list, but they seldom do it. 30% of companies report that they still do not have a disaster recovery program in place, and 2 out of 3 feel their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities. 1 in 25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed each year. Today's hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago. This increased capacity amplifies the impact of data loss, making mechanical precision more critical. You have a 30% chance of having a corrupted file within a one-year time frame.
You can avoid these disasters with a Backup Disaster and Recovery (BDR) plan that is monitored every 15 minutes of every day and alerts you to any potential problem.
You can learn more about how a backup disaster and recovery solution can help you to focus on your business and less on data loss at Global TechForce BDR.
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