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Step 2: How to Assess the Financial
Impact of Downtime

What is downtime? Why is it so costly? How do I know what downtime risks my company runs—and how much they add to the bottom line?

This resource page is designed to familiarize you with the basics of understanding and determining the costs of downtime to your organization. This process can often seem complex. But this workbook will help you break through that complexity with some easy to implement methods and guides. All designed to help you calculate the cost of downtime to your organization—and to determine how much of a threat or risk downtime poses.

It answers the top five questions of costs of unavailable systems, data and servers:

  • What is the "true cost of downtime"?
  • Are there industry averages that I can use to benchmark my downtime costs?
  • What are some benchmark formulas I can use?
  • Does downtime affect my compliance readiness?
  • What should I include in a downtime threat analysis?

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Step 2: How to Assess the Financial Impact of Downtime

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