Service downtime is one of the worst things that any company can go through because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up making it so that consumers will start to develop a bad impression of said company. A server can go down for lots of reasons, and it turns out that 76% of companies around the world ended up suffering from an outage last year with all things having been considered and taken into account.
This comes from a recent report released by Acronis, and it revealed that around 52% of outages were caused by system crashes. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that human error also played a role in a large chunk of them, with over 42% of them being caused by mistakes that employees might have made here or there.
However, it is also essential to note the impact that cyber crime is having on the rise in such incidents. 36% of outages had cyber attacks playing a role in them, and inside attacks were involved in over 20% of incidents that involved servers going down for extended periods of time. Plugging cyber security loopholes can help to prevent system outages, because the most common cause, system crashes, can themselves be the byproduct of cyberattacks that malicious actors may be trying to conduct.
Human error should also be reduced, since failing to update security protocols and follow basic practices is what has led to the vast majority of organizations facing outages that lasted a lot longer than they needed to. With politically driven cyber attacks on the rise, server outages could become a great deal more destructive than they currently are. Luckily, many if not most of their causes appear to be preventable at least at first glance, which suggest that there is a lot that companies can do to prevent such attacks from having an impact on their ability to keep their customers happy enough to stick by them.
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This comes from a recent report released by Acronis, and it revealed that around 52% of outages were caused by system crashes. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that human error also played a role in a large chunk of them, with over 42% of them being caused by mistakes that employees might have made here or there.
However, it is also essential to note the impact that cyber crime is having on the rise in such incidents. 36% of outages had cyber attacks playing a role in them, and inside attacks were involved in over 20% of incidents that involved servers going down for extended periods of time. Plugging cyber security loopholes can help to prevent system outages, because the most common cause, system crashes, can themselves be the byproduct of cyberattacks that malicious actors may be trying to conduct.
Human error should also be reduced, since failing to update security protocols and follow basic practices is what has led to the vast majority of organizations facing outages that lasted a lot longer than they needed to. With politically driven cyber attacks on the rise, server outages could become a great deal more destructive than they currently are. Luckily, many if not most of their causes appear to be preventable at least at first glance, which suggest that there is a lot that companies can do to prevent such attacks from having an impact on their ability to keep their customers happy enough to stick by them.
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