Square Outage, Data Center Issues & Planning for Resiliency | Pulse Update The Internet Report

When outages happen, it’s what you do next that matters. It’s important to have a backup plan in place that you can quickly activate to minimize the impact of an incident.
Over the past two weeks, companies initiated a range of resiliency actions, including asking customers to use alternate authentication methods (or to avoid logging out of a service), setting up a new contact center to re-establish lines of communication, and reverting to manual processes.
Tune in to learn more about what happened during these and other recent incidents.
CHAPTERS:00:00 Intro01:00 Square Outage Impacts “Multiple” Services04:18 Applied Digital’s Multi-week Data Center Issue07:14 UC Berkeley Data Center Outage08:44 Russia .ru Domain Outage10:05 Cyber Attack at Lurie Children's Hospital11:36 Outage Trends: By the Numbers15:55 Get in Touch
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- Internet Outages Timeline: https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/internet-outages-timeline?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q3_internetreportpulse29_podcast
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