A major UK-wide study found that 48% of small and medium-sized businesses had lost, or lost access to, company or customer data within the previous five years. That affected about 800,000 UK businesses and cost UK companies more than £5.3 billion since 2019. Commercial data loss alone exceeded £1 billion a year, according to Beaming's...
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Recovery Time Objective: A Complete Guide for UK Businesses
The average Recovery Time Objective for mature disaster recovery plans is 4 hours, while only 30% of small businesses maintain a tested plan. That gap is where most outages become expensive, because a target on paper means very little if no one has proved the business can meet it. For UK SMEs, recovery time objective is...
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Monday morning starts badly. Staff can't open shared files, Microsoft 365 looks wrong, the line-of-business system won't authenticate, and someone in accounts says a ransom note has appeared on screen. At that point, nobody cares whether backups exist in theory. They care about what gets restored first, who makes the call to take systems offline,...
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