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No-IT. Really. No. I. T. – R&a IT Strategy and Architecture
What happens when your organisation suddenly loses all of its IT? There are enough realistic ways for that to happen. Think: a really successful ransomware attack. As it turns out, first turning ou…
Be it a Chernobyl-style near-meltdown of a nuclear reactor next to your high-available twin data centers, or an extremely effective and insidious ransomware attack where you have to turn off your IT and then have to address the question: “how do we get up and running again?”, followed by: “within days, please, or we will go out of business.” A simple — “they are so fast these days, you won’t even notice” — firewall put in somewhere can create an unacceptable hundredfold drop in performance of a critical function, simply because of the cumulative effect of that almost unnoticable latency added to traffic. I wouldn’t be surprised that — maybe with the exception of sectors like in the military or nuclear industry which are used to thinking about vulnerability and recovery and extreme scenarios — there is any ‘normal’ organisation in the world who is ready for this at a scale where starting up your ‘MVO’ is required.
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