RBS seem to have had major technology issues

Robert Brockway robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 26 01:27:45 UTC 2012


On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Ian Garmaise wrote:

> From the Guardian - confessions of an IT salesman
>
> http://bit.ly/Mv3kgD

Hey that is a great article.  It mirrors many of my experiences and covers 
the reasons well, I think.

I've long been very cautious about recommending data encryption as most 
organisations (even large ones) don't seem to have the processes in place 
to deal wtih it properly, as the author notes.  Cryptography has exploded 
on to the scene and very few people have studied it formally.

I've written a lot about DR, etc, and you'll notice that I always 
emphasise simplicity and making as few assumptions as possible about 
the nature of the failure.

Cheers,

Rob

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
>> Well high availability as they sell it is a myth. It is extremely
>> difficult to test all the possible scenarios.
>>
>> It's not surprising that the odd bank goes down every once in a while.
>>
>> Dave Cramer
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Robert Brockway
>> <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, William Muriithi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wonder if any other bank have had such an extensive outage, apparently
>>>
>>>
>>> Other banks have certainly had serious outages in recent years.  One of
>> the
>>> Big Five banks (RBC?) had a serious outage a few years ago which left
>> people
>>> briefly unpaid.  Similarly, a couple of Australia's "Big Four" banks have
>>> had brief outages in recent months (IIRC).
>>>
>>> Banks used to be bastions of highly available redundant systems.  I
>> wonder
>>> if times are changing.  If a bank is too big to be allowed to fail then
>>> perhaps it is also too big to be allowed to have an outage :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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