Data Statistics

• A staggering 2,900 laptops, 1,300 PDA's and over 62,000 mobile phones were left in London taxi cabs over a 6 month period
  
  
• 1 in 10 laptops are stolen and 88% never recovered
  
  
• Research shows in the UK that IT staff spends about five working days each year finding and restoring business data lost due to either human error or IT failure
  
  
• One third of all data loss is due to power outages, surges and lightening
  
  
• Around 20% of tape backups fail in a managed computing environment. This figure rises to over 50% in a SME environment with no on-site IT personnel
  
  
• 60% of all data assets reside unprotected on PCs
  
  
• Online backup can be up to 98% faster than tape
  
  
• The cost of data loss is now so high that most Insurance companies refuse to cover it
  
  
• Two thirds of UK firms have suffered some kind of security breach
  
  
• Of those organisations who have suffered from a security breach, over 75% have no plans in place to deal with the problem
  
  
• Most tapes that are backed up are not encrypted. Should a tape be lost then it is a serious security breach. See www.securityfocus.com/news/11048 for further information