There is business value in difficulty. If you can add extreme difficulty for an attacker and only minor inconvenience to yourself, that’s a good thing. Utilities should focus on leveraging network architecture to add attacker difficulty while maximizing uptime and controlling costs.
Read MoreThe digital divide is exacerbated when much of the country turns to working and doing school from home. The misalignment between what customers want and need and the capacity and flexibility of networks lead us to this moment when we must ask whether the importance of internet infrastructure has reached a point where we should classify it as essential and create incentives for reliable fiber-optic networks to become ubiquitous.
~Jeff Christensen, EntryPoint Networks
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! With that in mind, RPO, RTO, and MTD are part of planning to avoid failure.
… While similar to Recovery Time Objective, this is the extreme — the “do not exceed” version of RTO. For example, RTO says “Let’s design systems for an ideal recovery time of, say, 12 hours,” and MTD finishes that statement with, "but under no circumstances can it go beyond 72 hours, for there will surely be catastrophic, irreversible consequences.”
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