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How do we ensure protection and recovery from a hack, intended damage or solar flare that fries the electronics on an outside server?

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Mar 18, 2021Mar 27, 2021 11:12 pm GMT
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As we become more digital how do we insure protection and recovery from a hack on or intended damage to your outside server or a solar flare that fries the electronics. Are there analogue hard wired tier 2 systems to get units back on line until the digital units can be replaced.

Asked by: - Advisory Specialist, SGRE

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Chief Innovation Officer, Owl Cyber Defense

March 28 2021

As you correctly point out in your question, a hack or electromagnetic impact on a diode will typically only cause harm on one side of the diode, the optical gap and galvanic separation will typically protect the other proxy server. We do offer a high-availability option that can switch to a hot standby system in the event of a proxy server failure. Some customers also keep a pre-configured standby system on-hand that they can quickly drop-in after a failure.

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