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California’s wildfire mitigation is a risky gamble
10 Oct 2019

California’s wildfire mitigation is a risky gamble

by Tamara Evan | posted in: Viewpoints | 0

On the evening of Wednesday, 9 October, Pacific Gas & Electric began the process of cutting off the electricity supply for 2.4 million Californians in order to diminish its wildfire risk. Meteorological forecasts suggested dry, gusty winds in certain areas, … Continued

climate change, critical infrastructure, power outage, risk mitigation, wildfire
What was the cost of Friday’s UK power outage?
14 Aug 2019

What was the cost of Friday’s UK power outage?

by Kelly Quantrill | posted in: Viewpoints | 0

Power outages have significant impacts on business continuity. They lead to reduced foot traffic, damaged perishable inventory, and an inability to process payments or communicate with customers. The three-hour outage in England and Wales on Friday, 9 August, demonstrated the … Continued

power outage, systemic risk, technology risk, transport risk
Lights out at Amazon
2 Mar 2017

Lights out at Amazon

by Jennifer Daffron | posted in: Viewpoints | 1

Tuesday, 28 February, saw “high error rates” in multiple AWS services in the US’ eastern region. These began in the S3 service provided by the US-East-1 North Virginia site before spreading to other services hosted by US-East-1 including CloudWatch, EC2, … Continued

cyber, power outage, risk

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