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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

As was subsequently revealed in Rogers’ submission to regulator Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the update “deleted a routing filter and allowed for all possible routes to the Internet to pass through the routers. Check your suppliers’ backup plans. It is much better than facing a cyber breach!”.

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What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

CIO Business Intelligence

It demands a blend of foresight, strategic prioritization, and having effective disaster recovery plans in place. It’s what they call ‘fat fingers,’” says telecommunications analyst Paul Budde. “If It should also include some kind of time frame to help manage expectations around downtime and restoration of business as usual.