New IT graduates would not be able to assure
business continuity in the event of a disaster, a new study
claims.
The
SteelEye
Technology Business Continuity Index, a survey examining
adoption levels, best practice and attitudes regarding business
continuity among IT professionals, uncovered the worrying
trend.
The business continuity firm said that
even as threats continue to rise, universities and
graduate-level information technology programmes are not arming
their students with the skills they need to prevent or recover from
IT disasters.
While 87% of respondents think the average IT organisation faces
the same or more threats to business continuity than it did a year
perviously, a significant majority (61%) said that current college
and graduate IT courses do not place enough emphasis on the skills
needed to implement business continuity.
Similarly, 60% of all organisations said that the average IT
organisation is no more prepared for these threats to business
continuity than it was a year previously.
And among respondents from organisations with a business need
for disaster recovery or business continuity protection, the top
reason given for avoiding investment was the
lack of skills to implement it.