Survey: Nine out of 10 IT professionals have lost company data

Security threats continue to give IT professionals headaches, but hardware failure, lost data, and other potential problems are often overlooked. Even though almost nine out of 10 IT professionals have lost data, half of respondents don't back up data because they forgot to do it, according to a new survey published by the CloudBerry Lab backup and management solutions company.

Furthermore 88 percent of IT professionals suffered lost data due to hardware failure, data corruption, malware or accidental deletion. In a rather surprising finding, 38 percent have never bothered to test recoverability of backed up data, while 47 percent end up waiting up to one month before backing up data.

Depending on the type of business, IT professionals recommend at least weekly data backups - though some industries should have critical information backed up on a daily basis. CloudBerry Lab found 32 percent of IT professionals understood they weren't protected or were unsure if their backups were secured with encryption, password protection, or some other type of security protocol.