[82054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MARLON BORBA)
Fri Jul 8 15:42:09 2005
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:27:36 -0300
From: "MARLON BORBA" <mborba@trf3.gov.br>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This leads us to the old fact that several ISPs and hosting providers =
protect their servers with every network perimeter security resource =
(firewalls, IPSs, virus-and-spam-appliances etc) but forget that "availabil=
ity" as a security principle requires adequate physical and utility =
safeguards also (backup site, automated failover, redundant communication =
links between sites and backbones, capable UPS, air-conditioning, =
fire-extinguishing...). Not all, as you see, are computer-related "per =
se", but they are "sine-qua-non" for 24x7 availability.
Abra=E7os,
Marlon Borba, CISSP.
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>>> "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net> 07/06/05 1:12 PM >>>
Netcraft reports that:
[snip]
A power outage at an Advance Internet hosting facility
has hobbled the web sites for the company's chain of
more than 30 newspapers, including many large metropolitan
dailies.=20
[...]
