Shut down 5 days ago, and not back at normal yet? Their IT security probably had multiple backups, wouldn’t they? While they decide whether to pay or not. Forgive if that’s a dumb question.
When I saw “FIB” in the news story, that explained it pretty well!
Mr mm said that this pipelines are 50 years old and that there’s no reason they can’t be operated manually except that they probably don’t have the manpower.
Apparently it’s also an IT failure on Colonial’s part. They’ve had this happen twice before and never addressed the security flaw that allowed the attacks.
Maybe now with the bad publicity, they will this time.
Not a dumb question. IMO, if this company didn't have backups of any important systems, that was criminally negligent. Where I work, we have annual tests of disaster recovery tasks for each of our applications. We assume our western data center has slid into the pacific ocean, and execute our recovery on our central data center.
This isn't rocket science. There are known catastrophic risks out there. A competent IT department plans for that.