‘Inadvertent incidents’ cause most IT lapses
IDC identifies the biggest threat to IT systems and it’s not the faceless shadow of hackers. Jon Wilcox reports.
The greatest threat to a company’s IT systems comes from internal incidents, and not malicious external forces, according to a new report from analysts at IDC. IDC found that just over half of the 400 respondent organisations believed IT violations were accidental, though 19% believed such occurrences were deliberate.
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Data and insurance
Hi,
Accidents and outages do happen and not every risk can be forseen or avoided. Not all insurance policies cover reinstatement of data and some of them will not provide cover unless the data has been backed up every 24 hours and you can prove it. Get the back up regime right, test the back up works and then check your insurance policy exclusions so you know what areas are not covered. The you can pay particular attention to them.
http://www.cobinecarmelson.com/what-is-cyber-insurance/
Take care,
Jason
"Inadvertant" is completely the wrong word...
In my expereince, almost every "inadvertant" incident is traceable to a badly-managed or poorly constructed and untested change to a working system. Accidents don't happen in IT, they are caused.