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The majority of businesses in the UK say that they have a full or reasonable business continuity plan in place, a new report suggests.

According to Version One, 80 per cent of businesses in the country believe that have good continuity and disaster recovery plans in place. This represents an increase of 20 per cent since January 2006.
However, Vision One also found that many businesses could be over-estimating how effective their businesses continuity plans are. Of the companies which said they had plans in place, 32 per cent were unable to explain what these plans involved.

Only 15 per cent were able to confirm that their business had plans in place which completely covered on-site security, staff and office re-location, communications, IT-back-ups and secure document storage.
"It's heartening that so many organisations are claiming to have business recovery plans in place should the worst happen," explained Tony Bray, Version One's sales and marketing director.

"However, it's also clear that companies who claim to have reasonable plans are failing to consider all areas of the business when preparing for a disaster."

"Companies may think they are prepared for a disaster when, in reality, there are big holes in their recovery plans."