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EpictetussutetcipE t1_j4245y8 wrote

Reply to comment by headgasketidiot in Cyberattack takes down land-records management system used by many Vermont towns by sickter6

It's easy to develop. It's hard to securely develop. It's harder to securely develop on top of securely architected and framework systems and networks appropriately.

I'm going to go with least common denominator and say it was likely something that didn't have MFA...

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headgasketidiot t1_j424z0a wrote

There's no one single thing that leads to a 3 week outage. That's so beyond the pale and only happens if you have a persistent culture of negligence and mismanagement.

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Pinakolonopin t1_j43mad5 wrote

This is the way all state agencies are run. There is zero money invested in IT, everything is ancient and the staff is buried under the massive workload.

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cpujockey t1_j4g4bie wrote

Shit happens. Vendors suck. Not all IT pros are created equally. Still not a good excuse for a proper disaster recovery plan / yearly testing.

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