IT Graduates Lack Skills to Ensure Business Continuity
A new survey of recent IT graduates claims today’s new recruits would not be able to assure business continuity in the event of a disaster. Are IT programs giving students the tools they need to ensure BC in the real world?

In an article on the ComputerWeekly.com website, Antony Savvas says the findings are part of the SteelEye Technology Business Continuity Index, a survey examining adoption levels, best practice and attitudes regarding business continuity among IT professionals.

The study found that even as threats continue to rise, universities and graduate-level information technology programs aren’t giving students the skills they need to prevent or recover from IT disasters.

“While 87 percent of respondents think the average IT organization faces the same or more threats to business continuity than it did a year previously, a significant majority (61 percent) said that current college and graduate IT courses do not place enough emphasis on the skills needed to implement business continuity,” Savvas says.

The study also found that 60 percent of all organizations say they are no more prepared for threats to business continuity than they were a year previously.