UK lags behind US on tackling internet disruption

US firms appear to be better prepared for managing internet disruptions than their UK peers over the pond, new research from Dyn suggests.

The company’s poll of US and UK IT teams reveals that the average internet disruption takes twice as long to rectify here as it does in America.

Dyn said the reason for the lag is that some UK companies are ‘blinded’ by having little or no visibility over what’s happening outside their networks.

The poll found a quarter of companies find it difficult to monitor or identify when problems occur outside their network and a third struggle to resolve such problems when they do happen.

This is a big problem, because that’s where more than half (57 per cent) of internet disruptions occur.

"It is worrying to see that just four in ten UK organisations monitor their network activity to identify patterns and any anomalies," Dyn’s Paul Heywood said.

"Given that over half of internet disruptions happen outside a company’s network - resulting in reputational damage, loss of revenue and new business for many UK organisations, as well as multiple headaches for any IT team - it’s time for companies to realise how important visibility into the performance of the complex, volatile internet is."

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