Top Reasons For Data Loss From OfficeXP white paper
Data loss may not seem like a security threat, but it is—if you lose data,
does it really matter whether you lost it due to a cup of coffee in your
laptop or because of a network attack? It’s still gone.Approximately six
percent of all business personal computers experienced an episode of data
loss in 1998. Hardware failure was the most common cause of data loss,
accounting for 42 percent of data loss incidents, and includes losses due to
hard drive failure and power surges. Human error accounted for 30 percent of
data loss episodes, and includes accidental deletion of data, as well as
accidental damage done to the hardware (for example, damage caused by
dropping a laptop). Software corruption accounted for 13 percent of data
loss incidents. Computer viruses, including boot sector and file infecting
viruses, accounted for 7 percent of data loss episodes. Theft, especially
prevalent among laptops, accounted for 5 percent of data loss incidents.
Finally, hardware destruction, which includes damage caused by floods,
lightning, and brownouts, accounted for 3 percent of all data loss
incidents. These incidents, on average, cost about $2,550 each when you
factor in the cost of replacing the lost data and repairing or replacing
equipment as necessary [1].
Office XP addresses data loss in two ways. First, the Office applications
themselves have been engineered to minimize data loss by changing the way
the Application Error Reporting feature works. During the development phase,
the most common failure modes leading to lost or corrupted documents were
identified and fixed. Second, the Corporate Error Reporting tool allows
companies to centralize failure reporting and analysis so they, in
conjunction with a Microsoft Support team, can identify exactly where
problems are occurring and work proactively to prevent, rather than repair,
data loss.
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