The NCA agency has recently been hit by a DDoS attack resulting in downtime of over two hours after recently arresting six hackers.
David Fisk, EMEA, Sales Director at Quorum highlights how in today's age IT leaders need to be on guard for even the most modest threats to their infrastructure.
David Fisk, EMEA Sales Director, Quorum says: “Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose the question of how can companies quickly recover from technical glitches? The National Crime Agency (NCA) site was down for two hours after it was hacked and they have measures in place which generally means their site is up and running again within 30 minutes. An organisation of this size has multiple redundant systems and a huge amount of experience in business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Yet the fact remains disasters such as this will occur. Today’s IT leaders need to be on guard for even the most modest threats to their infrastructure.
The reality is that neither humans nor computers are infallible and IT glitches will happen so it's about contingency planning and minimising the impact this will have on the company.
Companies need to be able to minimise the amount of damage during a time of crisis and a strong business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plan go a long way in helping to do this. Organisations have struggled with DR because traditional methods are either too complicated or too costly to implement and manage except for the largest companies. However, by adopting emerging technologies such as DR as a service (DRaaS) organisations can ensure their IT staff are trained and ready to instantly recover operations and keep their business viable."