How Mishandled IT Incidents Spiral Out of Control

How Mishandled IT Incidents Spiral Out of Control

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Survey respondents said their organization experienced an average of 150 IT incidents within the last year, each taking an average of 2.25 hours to resolve.

Ineffective MeansIneffective Means

78% of respondents said their organization still relies on manual phone calls to notify IT when an incident occurs, and just 16% are fully satisfied with their company’s current notification/activation process for incident response.

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12% said their organization waits for customers or users to complain before notifying IT about an issue.

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34% said it’s challenging to find the right on-call person when an issue surfaces, and 93% said there are times when the person or team assigned to an incident does not respond.

Most Common Types of IT IncidentsMost Common Types of IT Incidents

Hardware failure: 55%, Individual application outage: 54%, Data center network outage: 52%, Lost connectivity among sites or regional offices: 50%, Data center network performance issues: 39%

Insecure StateInsecure State

One out of 10 survey respondents said their organization experienced a denial-of-service attack within the past year.

Unfortunate Outcomes, Part IUnfortunate Outcomes, Part I

More than two out of five said their company encountered decreased customer satisfaction as a result of IT incidents, and one out of six said these incidents have caused their organizations to lose business.

Unfortunate Outcomes, Part IIUnfortunate Outcomes, Part II

64% said these incidents have caused personal stress or increased workloads.

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More than one-third said their IT incident response team members are located in multiple locations or time zones.

Most Likely Tech Employees to Participate in Large-Scale IT Incident ResolutionMost Likely Tech Employees to Participate in Large-Scale IT Incident Resolution

Network admins: 92%, Critical incident managers: 83%, Information security teams: 84%, Database operators: 82%, Systems engineers: 77%

Dennis McCafferty
Dennis McCafferty
Dennis McCafferty is a contributor to CIO Insight. He covers topics such as IT leadership, IT strategy, collaboration, and IT for businesses.

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