We’ve supposedly learned from the last ransomware (RW) attack. There’s just so much wrong in this.
No NHS IT should be vulnerable to RW.
Nothing operational should be vulnerable to RW.
There should be robust disaster-recovery systems to bring operational systems back up in under 24h, not 3 fricking weeks.
when I worked adjacent to a call-centre 20 years ago we had local & remote backups and tested the DR plans regularly. Those systems were nowhere near as critical as anything the NHS uses.
The real problem is probably “well, what else can we cut? Hmm, these fire extinguishers haven’t been used in a while, would anyone mind if we didn’t recharge them?”. It bit us when we didn’t have Test & Trace capacity in PHE at the start of the pandemic, and it’ll bite us again and again until the damage has been patched with more £££ than has been ‘saved’.
Interestingly, the yellow areas on the map correspond pretty exactly to the limits of the area in Britain where you find Roman villas and the areas that used a coin economy before the Roman conquest, bounded more or less by the Fosse Way.
Which isn’t a coincidence, of course, as those are the area’s most suited to preindustrial agriculture on a beyond-subsistence level.
41% of 35-44 year olds polled believe that riots over the cost of living crisis are justified? It should be brown trousers time in Whitehall and ToryHQ right now. This is how revolutions start.
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Though, that would still be too late for everyone else.
