A large hospital takes in power from multiple feeds in case any one provider fails. It's amazing that we're even thinking in terms of "a security company" rather than "multiple security layers."
The fact that ransomware is still a concern is an indication that we've failed to update our IT management and design appropriately to account for them. We took the cheap way out and hoped a single vendor could just paper over the issue. Never in history has this ever worked.
Also speaking of generators a large enough hospital should be running power failure test events periodically. Why isn't a "massive IT failure test event" ever part of the schedule? Probably because they know they have no reasonable options and any scale of catastrophe would be too disastrous to even think about testing.
It's a lesson on the failures of monoculture. We've taken the 1970s design as far as it can ago. We need a more organically inspired and rigorous approach to systems building now.
This. The 1970s design of the operating system and the few companies that deliver us the monoculture are simply not adequate or robust given the world of today.
The fact that ransomware is still a concern is an indication that we've failed to update our IT management and design appropriately to account for them. We took the cheap way out and hoped a single vendor could just paper over the issue. Never in history has this ever worked.
Also speaking of generators a large enough hospital should be running power failure test events periodically. Why isn't a "massive IT failure test event" ever part of the schedule? Probably because they know they have no reasonable options and any scale of catastrophe would be too disastrous to even think about testing.
It's a lesson on the failures of monoculture. We've taken the 1970s design as far as it can ago. We need a more organically inspired and rigorous approach to systems building now.