This happened everywhere. I worked in a company offering management agents that had additional features if they hooked up to the internet (“cloud management” or

This happened everywhere. I worked in a company offering management agents that had additional features if they hooked up to the internet (“cloud management” or “SaaS” before that term existed). Hospitals would never hook stuff to the internet. Industrial control systems, etc were all huge show stoppers. No offense, but I think you’re thinking of a later era. Most protocols back then had literally no auth or auth that was never deployed. The thought of critical systems safe enough to be exposed to the internet was just really unfathomable.