Many companies are failing to provide for data recovery
in their compliance policies, according to a global survey carried
out byKroll Ontrack, a provider ofdata recovery services.
Regulations governing data make it clear that companies have a
responsibility to protect data and make significant attempts to
retrieve data that has become compromised or lost. In an e-mail
survey of 100 users, 78% of respondents stated that they believed
data recovery to be the most important component of a compliance
plan while only 50% said that it was part of company policy.
Worryingly, nearly half of respondents (43%) said they did not
test their back-up systems to ensure data could be recovered in the
event of a
disaster.
"While data recovery is becoming increasingly synonymous with
disaster recovery plans, this survey reveals that data recovery has
not yet been deemed a critical component of all compliance
policies," said Phil Bridge, managing director at Kroll Ontrack,
UK.