Threats to business continuity rise
SteelEye Technology today released a preview of results from its annual SteelEye Technology Business Continuity Index: 87% of surveyed executives reported they felt the average IT organisation faces the same or more threats to business continuity than it did a year previous, with 63% indicating their belief that more threats abound
More than half of CEOs saw outages to key technology-enabled services that extended longer than 24 hours as potentially fatal to their organisations, pointing at financial systems and customer support as most critical.
Respondents' level of concern was also reflected in answers to another question in the survey, to which 81% of IT managers responded that they felt their CEOs considered business continuity a top priority. Although a slightly narrower majority, two-thirds (66%) reported that they felt their CEOs understood what IT teams needed in order to assure business continuity.
The survey's results also indicate prioritisation of business continuity was predictive of the degree to which the organisation is prepared to assure it. Organisations reporting high prioritisation of business continuity were more likely to have adopted business continuity measures such as remote disaster recovery sites and automated application recovery solutions. Not surprisingly, organisations taking such measures felt more prepared to avoid downtime than a year previous.
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