Symantec Corp. has published the findings of an international study into corporate disaster recovery practices. The ‘Symantec Disaster Recovery Research 2007’ report includes the results of research conducted by independent market research firm Dynamic Markets during June and July 2007. The study polled IT managers in large organizations across the US, 11 European countries, the Middle East and South Africa to gain insight and understanding into some of the more complicated factors associated with disaster recovery.

Survey highlights include:

- While 91 percent of IT organizations carry out full scenario testing of their disaster recovery plans incorporating relevant people, processes and technologies, nearly 50 percent of those tests fail.

- The most feared consequences of disasters among IT professionals include suffering harm to their company’s brand and reputation, negative impact on overall customer loyalty, damage to their competitive standing and loss of company information. 69 percent of respondents are concerned about suffering damage to their company’s brand and reputation, 65 percent fear harm to overall customer loyalty, 65 percent are concerned about the impact to their competitive standing, and 64 percent worry about losing company data in the wake of disasters.

- 48 percent of organizations have had to execute their disaster recovery plans. Additionally, 44 percent of organizations without a disaster recovery plan experienced one problem or disaster, while 26 percent experience two or more, and 11 percent experienced three or more.

- 77 percent of CEOs are still failing to take an active role on disaster planning committees.

- 88 percent of IT professionals polled carried out a probability and impact assessment for at least one threat, however only 40 percent carried these out for all threats, and 12 percent did not carry out a probability and impact assessment for any threat. Configuration change management was the least assessed threat area, and only 42 percent of respondents who felt exposed to this threat actually carried out a probability and impact assessment for it.

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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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