50% of Companies Lost Data in 2011 – Why?

Every year Cibecs (Pty) Ltd. sponsors the Business Data Loss Survey, uncovering what the challenges are for IT around endpoint data protection and data management.

The survey covered over 250 companies, and revealed why over half of companies aren’t managing to effectively secure their confidential data.

Some of the survey results

• 34% of IT manager’s listed ‘User’s not following policy’ as the biggest IT data protection challenge.
• 36% of companies are still using a company policy instructing user’s to copy their files to a server.
• 45% of IT manager’s find their data protection strategy only ‘moderately effective’

The majority of companies experience 30% or higher average annual data growth.

The survey discussed these results with industry thought leaders, and put together an 8 point list of essential business IT data protection requirements.

To download the full survey results white paper (registration required)