- 93% of the United Kingdom companies have faced a critical business incident (86% worldwide)
- However, they are not testing recovery plans with sufficient frequency
- Some are gathering inventories of critical systems
A new research warned that the United Kingdom companies could have an increased risk of facing dangerous cyber incidents, and 93% experienced a critical business incident compared to 86% worldwide.
The data comes from a Commvault study in the months after the shocking attack on the M&S of the United Kingdom retail and reveals a recent increase in incidents, and 57% occurred in the last 18 months.
However, despite the most at risk of companies in the United Kingdom, it is less likely that 21% have dedicated recovery environments than their global counterparts and 11% are less likely to have tried recovery plans in the last month.
The United Kingdom companies obtain more cyber attacks than the global average
Commvault said, despite the fact that British companies are more likely to experience “frequent devastating incidents”, they are staying behind when it comes to their preparation for recovery, and that is due to three key failures: the complexity of existing systems and applications (52%), the fight to maintain the recovery plans in line with their changing needs (47%) and difficulties that separate the central systems of the central systems of Less commercial criticisms (30%).
“Having a proven recovery plan and a cloud dedicated recovery environment can make a difference between chaos and continuous business,” said Commvault Emea SVP Richard Gadd.
However, the tables and the turn and the companies are beginning to lay the foundations of change. The report details how two out of three (65%) have an inventory of critical business systems and dependencies, which is higher than the global average (50%).
Looking towards the future, companies can strengthen their cyber security positions by adopting zero confidence and deny the default principles to avoid many threats while implementing continuous monitoring systems.
Since the United Kingdom companies are less likely to have carried out a recovery test in the last month, there is a clear scope for more evidence, including recovery and penetration tests to highlight any weak point before an attack occurs.
