On Infrastructure Resiliency
“When we go to an electricity utility, the thing that’s driving them is 99.99 percent availability so there is not the mind set for privacy. Because they’re using simple systems and everything is in real time, if you add auditing or monitoring to the process, it’s seen as a waste of resources,” Slay said.
Excellent quote that summarizes the current approach to infrastructure resiliency. Senior officers of India’s Railway Protection Force (two stars and up) spent a lot of time explaining how they were extremely frustrated with the manner in which railways were being built with the specific goal of zero excess capacity. Despite having explained how dangerous it is, they were ignored and told to take care of their support function.
Until that mindset changes, resiliency will be a far off goal. The trick is to find the right imperative and logically apply it.
-Shlok
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