Rethinking The Security Of Our Network Infrastructure
from the not-so-straightforward dept
The third part of the News.com series on e-terrorism looks at the lessons learned in New York (and being copied elsewhere) about how unprepared our telecommunications infrastructure really was for such things. While companies believed they had redundant systems set up, they didn't know that they all ran through the same central office. There were all sorts of carryover failures that no one had predicted - and not all of them were due to infrastructure issues. As one person points out, "You can have the most hardened systems with motor generators, UPS (uninterruptible power supply), all sorts of network redundancies. But what if you can't physically get into the building?"
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