Society was able to move to mass WFH on a global scale in a single month during Covid, thanks to the highly centralized and efficient cloud infrastructure. That could have easily saved tens of millions of lives (Imagine the Spanish flu with mass air travel, no vaccines, no strain-weakening)
These small 'downages' basically never cause serious issue. Your solutions are just alarmist and extremely costly (though they will provide developer employment...).
> These small 'downages' basically never cause serious issue.
Hospitals, airlines, 911, grocery stores, electric companies, gas companies, all offline. There will be more than a few people dead as an indirect result of this outage, depending on how long it lasts.
> These small 'downages' basically never cause serious issue.
Emergency Departments and 911 were knocked offline. People will indirectly die because of this, just like the last time 911 went down, and just like the last time EDs went down.
If CrowdStrike can cause this with a faulty update (allegedly), what do you think could happen to Western infrastructure from a full blown cyberwar? It's a valid risk.
> Society was able to move to mass WFH on a global scale in a single month during Covid
I don't know how much WFH saved lives, seeing as ordered isolation and social distancing was a thing during the Spanish Flu too (you just take the economic hit). But yes it allowed companies to keep maintaining profits. Those that couldn't WFH got paid in most countries anyway (furlough in England, etc).
true, but incentives should be in place to encourage a more diverse array of products, at the moment with many solutions (especially security) it is a choice between that one popular known product (Okta, CrowdStrike, et al, $$$) and bespoke ($$$$$$$$$$).
If only because we can then move away from one-size-fits-all, while mitigating the short-term impact of events like the above.
These small 'downages' basically never cause serious issue. Your solutions are just alarmist and extremely costly (though they will provide developer employment...).