'Quarter of UK businesses have no disaster recovery plan'
03/04/2008 17:39:30
The number of UK companies with a IT disaster recovery plan in place has increased but more than a quarter still do not have one, new research claims.
A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which questioned 1,002 businesses found that 72 per cent had a disaster recovery plan in place - up from 58 per cent two years ago.
The research also revealed that 68 per cent believe business continuity in a disaster situation to be a very important driver of their IT security spending and 70 per cent "would suffer significant business disruption" if their IT systems were not available for a day.
"The number of companies with a disaster recovery plan has gone up. However, experience shows that plans are only effective if regularly tested. It is a concern that only half of plans have been tested in the last year," said PwC partner Chris Potter.
However, only 15 per cent of businesses fail to take their data backups off-site, the research found.
