Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters can come when you least expect it and at the most inopportune moments. Whether we like it or not, we cannot control when or where a natural disaster will strike. What we can control, however, is our preparation for such events. When a disaster strikes having a thorough IT disaster recovery plan in place is the only way to insure your business’ survival.

User Error
Nobody’s perfect, so it’s important to understand that accidents will occur and to have a proper methodology to recover from those accidents. Multiply these accidents by the number of users accessing the system and you will quickly see how great the chance of user error is. This is precisely what makes user error extremely dangerous. To counter this, you should have a disaster recovery plan created in advance allowing for the recovery of a system after a user-caused error.

Malicious Intent
It is important not to dismiss this type of disaster. There are going to be people who wish to access your data for malicious purposes – be it destruction of data, changing data, or any other type of data misuse. Therefore, securing your records should be one of your top priorities as a business.