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ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey 2004What are the effects on victims of virus disasters?HOW LONG WERE SERVERS DOWN?Figure 6 shows the pattern of responses on the question of how long servers were downafter a virus disaster. Ninety-five (95) participants reported disasters that included servers.The average server downtime reported was 23 hours. Eighty percent of respondingcompanies reported downtime of 20 hours or less.Server Downtime Hours: Frequency Distribution18161412Frequency10864201 2 3 4 5 10 20 30 40 50 100 200 300 400 500HoursFigure 6: Frequency distribution of server downtimeCopyright 2005 ICSA Labs, a division of Cybertrust, Inc. All Rights Reserved.This information may not be incorporated into any other work and may be reproduced only with the express written permission of Cybertrust, Inc.Page 11
ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey 2004WHAT WAS THE COST OF THE DISASTER IN PERSON-DAYS?Respondents were asked how many cumulative person days were lost during the disaster thataffected their company. Figure 7 is a frequency distribution chart of those responses. Ofthose reporting disasters, 99 participants (96 percent) were able to respond to the question.Of those responding, half of the respondents reported ten person days or less. Last year,there are two higher spikes at the ten day and twenty day points. The difference this year isthe twenty day spike is higher, and the ten day spike is somewhat lower. The average time forfull recovery was 31 person days.Total Person-Days to Recovery:Frequency DistributionFrequency16141210864200 1 2 3 4 5 10 11 12 13 14 15 20 30 40 50 100 200 300 400HoursFigure 7: Loss in person-days due to disasterWHAT WAS THE COST IN DOLLARS TO YOUR COMPANY?We also asked respondents to estimate the cost in dollars for their latest disaster. Theseestimates should include ALL costs, including employee downtime, overtime to recover,lost opportunity, etc. Table 4 shows these responses in a Cost Frequency Distribution table.Copyright 2005 ICSA Labs, a division of Cybertrust, Inc. All Rights Reserved.This information may not be incorporated into any other work and may be reproduced only with the express written permission of Cybertrust, Inc.Page 12
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