The Elusive Five 9’s: What does it mean?
Originally, the 99.999% consideration focused on “reliability”. But, demand
forced IT centric markets to adopt and impose an even
greater mandate: that of availability. Ironically, most all
of the security measures that have been developed and
implemented since 1965, have predominately served to
assure reliability, not availability. As the Debis Survey
chart below shows, 97% of businesses surveyed say they
can survive without their data for 4 hours to 1 day. But,
that same 97% are out of business if data is unavailable
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for 1 to 3 days to more then one week.
AVAILABILTY: Proactively stop the incident from becoming an event.
Over 50% of mission critical failures are due to structural
breaches, these are the type of events that result in denying users 2 .9
access to or “availability” of crucial operations for 3 days 0 .0
and more. Structural Security provided by iFortress
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protects mission critical technology and assets by
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mitigating risks and ensuring that your availability objectives are met.
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Introducing
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THEFT
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