Backup OK, Recovery OK, Redundancy OK, Indestructible Emergency Instructions OK and Business Plan OK. It is now time to consider experiences from the "real world".

In the "real world", it is not just accidents and unplanned events that cause businesses to fail. It is an actively hostile environment complete with a variety of factors with behaviors of every shade. From annoying (to demonstrate just "how smart" they are) through to the outright criminal (to gather monies by stealing from others).

You may recognize some or all of the following. They are not made up examples, they are occurring and are current. Source URLs are provided for your further reading:

Stealing your Identity; by means of software you loaded using a USB connector:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/consumer-security/public-usbs-are-not-power-points-kaspersky-warns-of-phone-hacking-danger-20160531-gp8myy.html

Stealing your ATM PIN; by means of your Smart Watch movement Tracker. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/your-smart-watch-can-spy-on-your-pin

Stealing your Password; by means of collecting your password when you used it on the "wrong" site: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/password-reuse-tool-makes-it-easy-to-id-vulnerable-accounts-on-other-sites/

Stealing your Bank Account Details; by means of Trojan Software running on 1 million devices: https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/06/19/226250/one-million-ip-addresses-used-in-brute-force-attack-on-a-bank

Stealing your Corporate IP; from your Air Gapped secure PC by means of Trojan Software that manipulates the speed of its fan: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-computers-fan-steal-data/

Stealing your Money; by means of fake Pokémon Go software:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/18/beware-the-fake-pokemon-go-apps/

Stealing "something not yet identified"; by means of a botnet of three million Twitter accounts: http://www.securityweek.com/botnet-3-million-twitter-accounts-remains-undetected-years