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The risks of data loss

A survey of small businesses found of those companies that lost customer data:

  • 30% lost sales as a result
  • 20% lost customers
  • 25% said the data loss caused them severe disruptions
  • 20% had no backups at all

Top causes of data loss

Survey of small businesses found the most common causes of data loss, from most to least common, were:

  • Hard Disk failure
  • Software bug
  • Destroyed by malware
  • Accident
  • Fire or disaster
  • Erased by hacker
  • Computer stolen
  • Lost password
  • Malicious employee
  • and Natural Disasters can destroy your valuable data: Forever in an instant.

It happens to thousands of businesses every day. Many are eventually forced to close.

 

 

 

Legal Obligation to Back-up

Australia

There are strict corporate governance requirements in Australia to protect corporate data and the responsibilities of company directors and managers in respect to data protection are covered in several areas of legislation.

Compliance with the Corporations Act

Section 1116 of the Corporations Act requires all records to be kept safe for 7 years.

Compliance with Tax File Number (TFN) Guidelines

Compliance Note 1/89 states: "Any recipients of TFN information are required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that security safeguards and procedures are in place to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure...whether it is stored in physical or electronic form." An office desk, post office box or home office would not pass the "reasonable steps" test, if that is where backups are stored.

Compliance with the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000


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