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Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

  • From: MARLON BORBA
  • Date: Wed Jul 06 12:29:51 2005 
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 "availability" 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�os,
Marlon Borba, CISSP.
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>>> "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <[email protected]> 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. 
[...]