Reasons for downtime often are servers failing and computers malfunction. These are usually mitigated by having redundant equipment, allowing systems to switch to a backup when encountering a failure. Human errors also occur from time to time, which is unavoidable.

System attacks can also take your networks and data down. Small to medium-sized businesses are usually the most vulnerable to these attacks. These have the least likely protections in place to cut the downtime in the event of an attack.

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