A further demonstration of the effects of an nationwide outage of Critical National Infrastructure, as Optus in Australia suffers a major systems

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A further demonstration of the effects of an nationwide outage of Critical National Infrastructure, as Optus in Australia suffers a major systems failure. It is not know what caused the outage, but it is a significant issue for Optus. That recently suffered a well publicised cyber attack. The outage prevented some customers accessing 000 emergency services.

Political leaders have called for a Senate Enquiry into the outage, a demonstration of the severity of the problem. A problem that has left many users unable to access mobile phone and internet services.

“This is not a small matter and the parliament will have to look at what Optus can and should be doing, what they knew, how this failure happened and there needs to be … consequences for this type of outage,”

Ted Dziekanowski Brian D. McCarthy Rachel V. Rose, JD, MBA Bob Dix

#paravasecuritysolutions #cybersecurity #cyberriskmanagement #resilience

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