Eileen Haggerty Area Vice President , Product & Solutions Netscout
IT OUTAGE
Eileen Haggerty Area Vice President , Product & Solutions Netscout
“ Hospitals and healthcare treatment providers have been affected with several major hospitals cancelling nonurgent surgeries and others announcing they could still accept appointments but could not connect to patient records , instead having to rely on paper records .
“ Implementing system updates effectively requires carrying out preventive maintenance and routine upgrades to ensure services can operate at optimal efficiency . By carrying out maintenance checks and regular updates , organisations can mitigate the risk of unexpected downtime and , in turn , prevent fiscal and reputational losses . To avoid downtime resulting from system outages , as well as the chaos and performance disruption that accompanies it , organisations ’ IT teams need complete end-to-end visibility into the threats against their network . This allows organisations to monitor networks and applications regardless of where they are hosted or where users access them .
“ Looking ahead , as a way of learning from Friday ’ s global IT outage , organisations should use visibility tools for post-mortem , allowing them to build a detailed repository of information based on previous issues they have encountered , helping them to deal with future challenges more ffectively and efficiently .”
78 August 2024