Natural
Natural Disasters
Hurricanes, tornados, and fire can cause serious downtime by affecting facilities and infrastructure. What most clients may not understand is that only 6% of outages are caused by natural disasters.
Pandemics
This type of threat affects an organization's people and, in the case of remote work, creates a whole host of planning scenarios IT departments may not have previously considered. There is a greater risk when data and devices live outside of IT's regular infrastructure.
Human
Hardware Failure and Software Corruption
Hardware failure can be caused by a power outage. Software may become corrupt due to failed software updates, incorrect formatting of drives.
Human Error with or Without Malicious Intent
It happens. Many of us have accidentally deleted or overwritten something we didn't mean to. A disgruntled employee might also wreak havoc with data and systems.
Cyber Attacks
If even one employee's machine is compromised, entire networks can become vulnerable. Attacks can happen quite quickly with weak passwords, falling for phishing scams, and clicking on malicious links.
