More than three-quarters of UK senior IT professionals admit that their organisation has lost data due to system failure, human error or a cyberattack in the past year. Yet, despite the experience, many still lack confidence in their data recovery technology and testing capabilities. This is according to new research into business resilience in an increasingly hostile cyber landscape, published by business protection and recovery specialist Assurestor, who warns that a “concerning Titanic mindset” is putting data – and entire businesses – at risk.
While 78% of respondents have suffered data loss at least once in the past 12 months, only a little more than half (54%) are confident they could recover their data and mitigate downtime in a future disaster. One in four is not confident in recovery solutions that include tape backup and cloud backup. Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster...