Assuming these are network devices - it can be harder to certify future working if the network services they rely on become unavailable or when the failure only

Assuming these are network devices - it can be harder to certify future working if the network services they rely on become unavailable or when the failure only occurs at scale. Case in point when 700,000 Netgear routers pinged the University of Wisconsin–Madison NTP server (harcoded IP address) every second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Netgear_and_the_University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Ne...