Internet Impacts Disruptions.(Industry Trend or Event)

Enterprise Systems Journal, January, 2000

As a result of its growing reliance on the Internet for critical business applications, corporate America is increasingly vulnerable to potentially devastating disruptions on its individual IT network infrastructures. This startling fact is part of the 1999 Vulnerability Index, released by Comdisco Inc., a provider of technology management services and co-sponsored by BellSouth, a strategic alliance partner of Comdisco.

This latest research reveals that America's e-business is seriously threatened by the underlying vulnerability of companies' respective network infrastructures, and the failure to identify and address issues affecting system availability. One of the principal findings of the study is that only 30 percent of organizations have recovery plans in...

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