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Most companies have disaster recovery plans for just 7 days, study finds
A majority of businesses would be crippled by a seven day IT outage due to their having inadequate disaster recovery plans in place, a new study has found.
Research carried out by Gartner found that, of the IT professionals questioned in the UK, US and Canada, 60 per cent admitted that their organisations' continuity plans are limited to outages of less than seven days.
In addition, while many companies have taken steps to protect their data and operations in the case of internal damage, fewer have planned for incidents beyond their control.
For example, 77 per cent have a disaster recovery plan in place when it comes to power outages caused by a fire and 72 per cent have covered themselves against events such as flooding.
However, just half of all those polled said that they had planned against terrorism-related IT outages, with this figure down to just 29 per cent when it comes to pandemics.
"If you start looking at some of the events we've [experienced] over the last few years, companies must plan for events that actually take much longer to recover from" said Gartner analyst Roberta Witty.
"This is an issue [businesses] have to deal with -- it's in front of everyone's face right now."
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