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"SolarWinds says it has over 300,000 customers including: -more than 425 of the U.S. Fortune 500 -all ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies -all
by brundolf 6y ago
"SolarWinds says it has over 300,000 customers including:
-more than 425 of the U.S. Fortune 500
-all ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
-all five branches of the U.S. military
-all five of the top five U.S. accounting firms
-the Pentagon
-the State Department
-the National Security Agency
-the Department of Justice
-The White House"
Purely from a risk management perspective, it's a terrible idea to have a single point of failure for all of the above
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoWhat would the solution be? Use the products of multiple companies for everything tech related? Give AMD processors for the army, and INTEL to the white house? Should telcos use windows, and the pentagon linux? NSA can use excel, and NSA libreoffice? Collecting the generic common components and software used by large chunks of people would yield an endless list. Even then, when an exploit comes out for something, the only benefit is that you can limit the extent of damages, not prevent it. Removing all single points of failure in this scale seems impossible.
- brundolf 6y agoI think what you describe seems entirely reasonable. Though more so for software than hardware; that way a single exploit can't take down our whole government.