BA and it's IT systems problems

[ikalugin]

Fairly recently a major cell phone operator (Megafon) simultaneously lost both its primary and backup user data processing centers for Central/Southern region. Needless to say they had some service issues until they managed to migrate their data to a makeshift solution.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40117382

Both members of the same Old Boys Club

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by McBeck

Well, we also joked about the actual fact, that if you really wanted to perform an attack that impact a country, target whole datacenters that act as each others failover. Chances are that this could actually cripple/kill companies and even impact whole countries. Just think taking out datacenters that hosts top 2 banks in a country + a few central big business.

I don't want to make a big deal out of this, due to my lack of understanding on what a data center is, but it seems very important to most western countries.

How long if ever would it take to find out if it was an accidental power surge or an enemy induced power surge? You can't very well go to war with a suspicious third world country when in reality it was a smarter well informed agent of evil wanting to get even for who knows what?

[McBeck]

And they are calling in the scapegoats!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-meltdown.html

If the business takes such an impact from a 15min outage then they have designed the system incorrectly. That outage could have come from many other sources where they couldnt call it human error.

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I don't want to make a big deal out of this, due to my lack of understanding on what a data center is, but it seems very important to most western countries.

How long if ever would it take to find out if it was an accidental power surge or an enemy induced power surge? You can't very well go to war with a suspicious third world country when in reality it was a smarter well informed agent of evil wanting to get even for who knows what?

They are important, but do you think a CIO would pay attention to such a risk? Security has always been difficult to explain the value of because you only experience it for real when it fails and when it fails the impact can be rather high. High impact and very small chance risks are not easy for people to deal with.

Fact of the matter is that datacenters are not fortresses and can be physically attacked.