Hard to believe, but the most frequently encountered ‘to-fix’ during due-diligence has to do with what you’d think would be a formality: having proper backups. On an annual basis I see quite a few companies from the inside and it is (still!) a total surprise to me how many companies have a pretty good IT operation and still manage to get the basics wrong when it comes to something as as simpel as having backed up the data and software that is critical to running their business.
