The warp-speed digitalisation of our economies and societies has brought immense benefits. But it has also created huge vulnerabilities as today’s global outage demonstrated. For too long, governments and companies have acted on the assumption that cyber resilience is important but not urgent. The scale of this most recent digital failure — “the largest IT outage in history”, according to one security analyst — may help shift those considerations into the urgent bucket.
我們經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會(huì)的高速數(shù)字化帶來了巨大的好處。但同時(shí),它也帶來了巨大的漏洞,正如今天的全球網(wǎng)絡(luò)中斷所證明的那樣。長期以來,政府和企業(yè)一直認(rèn)為網(wǎng)絡(luò)恢復(fù)能力很重要,但并不迫切。根據(jù)一位安全分析師的說法,這次最近的數(shù)字故障是“史上最大的IT故障”,可能會(huì)促使相關(guān)方將這些問題視為緊急事項(xiàng)。