Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.
Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.
Which is why there is the general rule of zero trust in networks. You start with nothing and you need to prove why you need a hole poked in the firewall. Some IT departments are better at actioning those requests than others. You clearly have had the joy of working with IT departments that are on the worse end of the scale.
Exactly. Hence I started with the trillion dollar mistake comment, it costs a truck load of money to get any changes for development with no security benefit in this context. I could feed businesses bad data and no network dictatorship can stop that.