06/04/2026
No solution is immune from misconfiguration, threat actors, or disasters. You must have a disaster recovery plan. The UniSuper incident was so severe that Google's CEO and top executives publicly apologized. Hundreds of virtual machines and databases tied to a $125 billion account had to be restored. If they had lost all that data, the magnitude would have been catastrophic. UniSuper dodged a bullet—thanks to whoever decided to back up to another provider. That technical leader did an excellent job.
FnPodcast 12 pt.8