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Most UK Small Businesses Are Without Continuity Plans

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
Unprepared Everywhere

Unprepared Everywhere

The failure of small businesses to plan for disruptions appears to be a universal phenomenon. The sixth annual Data Health Check Report surveyed more than 400 businesses in the UK  and found that just 27 per cent of small businesses have business continuity plans in place, compared with 68 per cent of mid-sized businesses and 75 per cent of large companies. This finding has remained roughly constant over time, which is curious, as cloud computing and other innovations have reduced the costs of data backup and basic continuity measures. The report also found that 73 per cent of the small businesses that have a business continuity plan in place have not tested it within the past year and nearly half of them have no plans to do so in the near future.  Of those small businesses that had not tested their plans, only 28 per cent expressed confidence that they could successfully initiate a recovery operation in the event of a disaster. The study also found that the leading cause of data loss is human error (24 per cent), with hardware failure a close second (21 per cent).