Security News > 2022 > May > 79% of organizations have activated a disaster recovery response within the past 12 months

Zerto recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which revealed that 79% of respondents have activated a disaster recovery response within the past 12 months.

61% of these incidents were triggered by ransomware or other malware with 60% of organizations reporting they had experienced unrecoverable data during that same time-substantially more than the 43% response rate to the same question a year ago.

Respondents reported an average of 19.3 attacks and 2.3 ransomware attacks in the past year with 93% of organizations suffering a data-related business disruption during the past 12 months and 67.8% of respondents experiencing four or more such disruptions.

Of even greater concern, 59.6% of respondents have experienced unrecoverable data loss within the past 12 months.

Organizations lack confidence in their current backup and data recovery solutions.

In response to these challenges, the report highlights the growing role of Continuous Data Protection and its ability to "Significantly reduce the potential for data loss, regardless of cause, while reducing the time to recovery and simplifying recovery." As the report points out, CDP captures data changes as they are written so that the effective RPO is reduced to seconds and virtually eliminates the 'backup gap' that can act as a major cause for data loss.

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