Cyber Attacks Spur Investments in the Federal Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Infrastructure

The last decade has witnessed unprecedented increase in number and severity of cyber attacks on the U.S. government networks (2), bringing pressure on the U.S. Federal IT management to drastically review the business continuity and disater recovery (BC/DR) paradigm, practices and tools. The US Federal IT market for business continuity and disaster recovery solutions will surpass $5 billion in 2015, growing in 2013-2018 at a CAGR of around 9%, according to a new market study (1):

Number of cyber attacks perpetrated against federal networks

Sources::
1. U.S. Federal IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Market Forecast 2013-2018

2. U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Market Forecast 2013-2018