[AusNOG] After Sandy Knocks Out Power, ... (huffingtonpost.com)

[Martin Hepworth]

That still leaves them with a single data centre, your DR should be in a
separate physical location at least 45 miles away ( well thats uk
recommendations as that means your on a separae part of the electricity
grid), not sure of US recommendations.

 Now yes of course this was a huge strorm much bigger than 45 miles but the
main issue of separate sites still would have mitigated the issue.

This goes back to old school infosec on risk and costs to business of
outages. Problem with alot of the new facilities being build on Saas/cloudy
offerings is that theyve grown so fast theyve nit done some of thr basics
and rely on luck to get out of problems!

Justsayin

Martin

On Thursday, 1 November 2012, Mark Newton wrote:

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> On 01/11/2012, at 11:01 PM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
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> > hmm so they had NO DR plan at all and people still want to use PEER1's
> customers that helped haul the diesel. Interesting, I'd be worried about
> using Squarespace or Fog Software!
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> Easy to throw rocks from a distance.
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> If the article is accurate they actually had several escalating DR plans
> (gens in the basement, a backup gen on the 17th floor, a team of staff to
> haul diesel, and a backup plan to relocate service to another datacentre).
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> If you've ever run critical infrastructure you'll know that you can make
> all the plans you want, but stuff beyond your control still happens, and
> when the shit hits the fan you just do whatever you can do to keep the
> lights blinking.
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>    - mark
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Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK
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