by Jesper Kråkhede, Sweden
Posted in Security Architecture, Technology on Oct 15th, 2025
A few weeks ago, travellers at several of Europe´s largest airports had their check-in done by hand. The airports hadn´t been attacked directly. The shared system that many airlines use for check-in, boarding and baggage had been hit by ransomware at its supplier. At one airport it took more than two weeks before the central […]
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Jul 22nd, 2024
Following the massive outage last week, a few thoughts for management. The reflex after an event like this is to look for someone to blame and something to replace. That is understandable, but it misses the point. Any vendor can make a mistake. The question is whether your organisation can survive it. Defence in depth […]
Posted in Security Architecture, Technology on Jul 22nd, 2024
Last Friday a security vendor pushed a faulty content update to its endpoint protection. About 8.5 million Windows machines crashed and couldn´t restart. Airlines, hospitals, banks and stores stopped. Many machines had to be fixed by hand, one by one, and on machines with BitLocker someone had to type in a 48 digit recovery key. […]