How long could your business run without its computer systems and data?
Complete our online survey and find out how well protected your business is:
http://questionnaires.mistral.net/security.aspx
Around one in five UK firms suffer major disruption in any one year. Here are some statistics about business productivity in the event of business interruption or loss of data:
"On average, by the 6th day of a major data loss, companies experience a 25% loss in daily revenue. By day 25 it is 40%."
"43% of companies that experience a severe data loss disaster, and that have no recovery plan in place, never re-open."
"The average cost to a UK SME of a virus attack is £843 with an average downtime of 7.2 hours."
"You must safeguard your own or anyone else´s data, by appropriate precautions against loss, corruption or unauthorised disclosure" - Data Protection Act, 1998.
Some examples of data loss:
In June 2005 Mastercard International experienced a security breach which potentially exposed the card details of some 40 million credit card holders. Poor security of a supplier was blamed.
(http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39131274,00.htm)
In February this year Ernst & Young lost a laptop containing personal details sufficient to steal the identity of the CEO of Sun Microsystems. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/25/ernst_young_mcnealy/)
Here are some causes of loss of data, some obvious, some less obvious:
• Hard Disk Failure
• Hardware theft
• Hacking/Cracking
• Virus outbreak
• Accidental deletion (human error)
• Power Failure
• Fire
• Flood
• Lack of backup procedure
• Failure of backup procedure
• Lack of compliance with backup procedure
• Loss of backup media
So what are you doing to protect your business? There are many measures that can be taken, some cost money and some are simply best practice.
Mistral has categorised 4 main areas of your business IT systems which need to be protected to mitigate the risk of data loss – e-mail, Web Access, Network (LAN, WAN) and Business Data.
Complete our online survey for each of these categories and find out how well protected your business is. http://questionnaires.mistral.net/security.aspx
