Failure Reasons

The typical company is one failure away from total disaster.

• 92% of growing businesses do not have a complete backup. Those that do, only backup a portion of their data.

• 96% of growing businesses are exposed to drive failure; one drive failure and everything is lost.

• 94% of growing businesses have poor or non-existent system security. Employees can gain access to anything.

• 98% of growing businesses are missing important operating systems or network patches.

• 92% of growing businesses have no sys-tem internet restrictions; employees can freely visit any site including virus infected sites.

• 93% of growing businesses are vulnerable to hidden viruses; employees can freely download or transfer viruses.

Data derived from New York Times September 6^th, 2006
and direct observations.