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Not to mention all the recent attacks on hospitals.[1] My local hospital's electronic patient records systems were down for literally a month[2] after a cyberat
by hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
Not to mention all the recent attacks on hospitals.[1] My local hospital's electronic patient records systems were down for literally a month[2] after a cyberattack.
You can probably imagine how disruptive that is when it's the largest hospital in the state. Sorry, but we lost everyone's prescription information! We can't look up anybody's drug allergies, either! I guess we'll just have to guess the details of what treatments our current dialysis and cancer patients need? It was quite the mess.
[1] https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-24-IBM-Security-Report-Attacks-on-Industries-Supporting-COVID-19-Response-Efforts-Double https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-24-IBM-Security-Report-Atta...
[2] https://vtdigger.org/2020/11/23/a-month-after-cyberattack-uvm-medical-center-restores-access-to-electronic-records/ https://vtdigger.org/2020/11/23/a-month-after-cyberattack-uv...
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat amount of downtime isn't acceptable. Modern incremental backups should protect against ransomware at least. Out the box solutions are expensive, but it would have been the good investment for this downtime alone.
- qeternity 5y agoIt’s pretty trivial to setup Postgres with very high frequency wal shipping to append-only S3 which gives you point in time recovery and prevents your data from being ransomed.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoAs with all forms of backup, it's difficult to do retroactively.