Seventy per cent of businesses which suffer a major data loss do not recover and are out of business within 18 months. Furthermore, a staggering 77% per cent of firms with less than 10 staff rely solely on their PC and almost half (44%) have been a victim of cyber crime - including data theft.

The most damage comes from authorised users - either those who accidentally put systems at risk or disaffected employees and partners who maliciously set out to ruin a company. Trojans, worms and other viruses also pose risks and cause systems to crash and data to disappear.

Considering it can take almost three weeks to retrieve and re-enter just 20 megabytes of data at a cost of around £4,000 it is easy to understand why businesses quickly flounder. Imagine the effect on sales when a customer data base is lost or employee reaction to vanished payroll and personnel data.

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