UAE Business: 76pc organisations ‘suffer downtime and data loss’ this year – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: 76pc organisations ‘suffer downtime and data loss’ this year – Gulf Digital News

Some 76% of organisations this year experienced downtime due to data loss, a 25% increase from 2021, said Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection.

This downtime stemmed from a number of sources, including system crashes (52%), human error (42%), cyberattacks (36%), and insider attacks (20%), said Acronis in its annual Cyber Protection Week Global Report 2022 timed to this year’s World Backup Day.

The report which surveyed over 6,200 IT users and IT managers from small businesses to enterprises across 22 countries, including the UAE, exposes some of the most critical shortcomings appearing in cyber protection practices today, examines why they’re appearing, and offers guidance on how they can be fixed.

Running solutions simultaneously

One of the key findings last year was that 80% of organisations ran as many as 10 solutions simultaneously for data protection and cybersecurity — yet more than half of them suffered downtime because of data loss.

According to the report findings, the UAE performed dismally with 18% of the organisations claiming to use between 11-15 different solutions while a further 8% of companies use over 15 solutions simultaneously. Clearly, more solutions do not translate into more protection.

This year, Acronis sees that trend getting worse with 78% of organisations globally