In any event it is clear that computer system failure was the heart of the problem and given the estimated billions of dollars costs to businesses from the blackout, it seems certain that IT audit and compliance will now be strongly enforced.
One consideration in more security-conscious times is disaster recovery - how a company gets up and running again after fire, theft, power cut, natural disaster, terrorist attack or other 'act of God'.
The battery failure may well be a random event - and I do hope so - but the logic board failures are almost definitely down to the supply of a single or multiple components. And the reality is I only lost a week of evenings working on these...
But end users were let off the hook by the CEO of a security company who said immature security tech is a bigger danger than human error. Pescatore added: "We knew as soon as we saw the iPhone that [company] managers would want one and read...
Couple those complications with alternative protocols and actions, such as power and communications failure, satellite office accessibility, complete or partial loss of one or more critical services such as telecoms or internet and it is...
Speaking at the Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08 conference in The Hague today, the Symantec CEO said it will kick off its cloud expansion plans with the worldwide rollout of the online disaster recovery and backup service it already offers...