New survey raises serious concerns about the effectiveness of disaster recovery plans.

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Although almost all UK companies back up their critical IT systems and data, more than a quarter of them still do not have a disaster recovery plan in place. Half of those that do have plans, fail to test them. Also, 15% of companies do not take their backups off-site. This is despite the fact that 92% of businesses now consider disaster recovery planning an important driver of their IT expenditure. These are among the early findings of the 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) carried out by a consortium, led by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on behalf of the...