21% of UK organisations are less likely to have deployed a dedicated recovery environment.
UK businesses experience a higher rate of critical cyber incidents than any other country.
According to research by Commvault, 93% of UK businesses have experienced a business-critical cyber incident, yet they are 21% less likely to have a dedicated environment in which to recover.
Defining cyber incidents as an event or series of events that negatively affects the security of data systems or digital information within an organisation, including a security breach or ransomware attack,only seven percent of the UK businesses surveyed reported never having experienced a “business-critical” incident, compared to 14% of the rest of the world.
These business-critical incidents occurred in the past 18 months, according to 57%, while 21% of UK organisations are less likely to have deployed a dedicated recovery environment, and 11% less likely to have tested their recovery plans within the last month compared to the other countries.
Almost a third (30%) cited difficulties separating ‘core’ systems from less business-critical, ‘broader’ operations as another primary barrier to implementing the MVC concept.
“With the threat landscape evolving, business recovery is now a key concern at the board level,” says Richard Gadd, senior vice president, EMEA, Commvault.
“However, this research identifies critical gaps many organisations in the UK face as they rapidly try to advance their cyber resilience strategies. Having a tested recovery plan in place and a dedicated recovery environment in the cloud can make all the difference between chaos and continuous business.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
