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Category Archives: Contingency Planning
Google Plus – Disk Space Minus, Spam Double Minus
July 25, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Google’s foray into Facebook’s space hit an unfortunate glitch during its “field trial” … the system ran out of disk space and was down for more than an hour and those users, who were affected, received a deluge of emails … see Graham Cluley’s post “Google+ runs out of…
Mitigating the “Humin Errur” Risk
June 13, 2011 – 6:00 am
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There is a retrospective report on May 18, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal by Yuka Hayashi and Phred Dvorak, with the title “Fresh Tales of Chaos Emerge From Early in Nuclear Crisis,” which describes the first few minutes following the earthquake that hit Japan on 3-11-11 and how workers in…
A Break in the Cloud
May 23, 2011 – 6:00 am
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As the recent reporting demonstrates, an outage in cloud computing does in fact let the sun shine through … through to the realization that the cloud is not totally reliable and resilient. The recent experiences with Amazon and Google serve to illustrate this, although there have been quite…
NIST Special Publication 800-82 Provides Stuxnet Recipe
May 3, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Many were surprised by the Stuxnet worm that infiltrated into Iranian nuclear materials processing plants and reportedly caused the destruction of centrifuges. But they shouldn’t have been surprised, especially if they had read NIST SP 800-82 “Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS)…
The Economics of Safety and Security
April 18, 2011 – 6:00 am
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One of the most horrifying comments through the entire Japanese mega-catastrophe was that by CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow, as reported in a March 20, 2011 New York Times article by Jeff Sommer with the title: “A Crisis That Markets Can’t Grasp – As Japan’s Disaster Evolves, Wall Street Keeps…