Posts tagged disaster recovery
Accenture, Ransomware, and Ambulance Chasers
Accenture, Ransomware, and Ambulance Chasers

When LockBit 2.0 claimed Accenture, every security vendor claimed their product would have stopped it. Tom explains why they are wrong, why backups and a tested disaster recovery process are the best defence against ransomware, and why the biggest risk, and the biggest asset, is your own people. Gangs are recruiting disgruntled insiders, so how a company treats its staff is now a security control.

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Thomas KranzAccenture ransomware, LockBit 2.0, ransomware defence, ransomware backups, disaster recovery, insider threat, security vendor FUD
On the S3 Outage and Agile Cloud Native Serverless Failures
On the S3 Outage and Agile Cloud Native Serverless Failures

When Amazon S3 went down in US-East-1, the headlines blamed Amazon. Tom argues the real story is companies that treated cloud and Agile as excuses to skip high availability, disaster recovery, RACIs and KPIs. Cloud is other people's commodity infrastructure, you still have to plan for it failing, and proven methods like PRINCE2, OODA and PDCA fit Agile delivery perfectly well.

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Thomas KranzAWS S3 outage, cloud resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, Agile and PRINCE2, serverless architecture, cloud native failures