Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac...
by londons_explore on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:50AM
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> "assume it failed. How does the airplane survive?"
The very next step of this that so many people starting out forget is:
When the part has failed, and the redundant systems taken over, how will the original be repaired? If a repair does not happen soonish, then other parts will fail, and the system as a whole will fail.
Too many systems are designed to be redundant, but with no self-test, monitoring and alerting system, redundancy is useless.
In the case of the compartmentalization proposed, this means there is no point in compartmentalizing your data if nobody will do anything when a compartment is compromised.
The very next step of this that so many people starting out forget is:
When the part has failed, and the redundant systems taken over, how will the original be repaired? If a repair does not happen soonish, then other parts will fail, and the system as a whole will fail.
Too many systems are designed to be redundant, but with no self-test, monitoring and alerting system, redundancy is useless.
In the case of the compartmentalization proposed, this means there is no point in compartmentalizing your data if nobody will do anything when a compartment is compromised.