STUDY SHOWS SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES UNPREPARED

By D.E.Levine

Symantec, a leader in security software recently conducted a survey among small and medium businesses (SMB) regarding their preparation for disasters.

While SMB respondents were confident in their disaster-recovery capabilities, actual results for performances preventing outages showed the same companies to be remarkably unprepared.

According to the Symantec survey the average SMB backs up only 60% of its company and customer data. Additionally, instead of scheduling these backups for regular intervals, they are haphazard and done irregularly.

Symantec claims that "only one in five (23%) back up on a daily basis and 40% back up monthly or less. Despite these facts, according to the SMBs, more than half (55%) feel they would lose at least 40% of their company data in the event of a disaster, such as a fire, that wiped out their computing systems.