{"id":1789,"date":"2021-06-08T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:40:36","slug":"internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not clear if UK government had alternative that would have allowed services to be back online promptly<\/p>\n<p>This morning\u2019s 45-minute internet outage which knocked out the Gov.UK domain \u2013 as well as a string of publishers and other websites \u2013 cannot easily be dismissed as an isolated event. It also demonstrates a lack of resilience at the heart of critical government services.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody wanting to book a Covid test in the late morning on Gov.UK would have struggled. There is an alternative method by phone, but who knows the number to call: 119? Government services once delivered by form and post, then call centres, now only really exist through online connections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/08\/internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2cba2ae5b304f9d78e992d7ce906b92b56415ac4\/0_166_5078_3048\/master\/5078.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7c1545c321f5c08559efce5383b7afac\" title=\"Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services\" \/>It is not clear if UK government had alternative that would have allowed services to be back online promptly<br \/>\nThis morning\u2019s 45-minute internet outage which knocked out the Gov.UK domain \u2013 as well as a string of publishers and other websites \u2013 cannot easily be dismissed as an isolated event. It also demonstrates a lack of resilience at the heart of critical government services.<br \/>\nAnybody wanting to book a Covid test in the late morning on Gov.UK would have struggled. There is an alternative method by phone, but who knows the number to call: 119? Government services once delivered by form and post, then call centres, now only really exist through online connections. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not clear if UK government had alternative that would have allowed services to be back online promptly This morning\u2019s 45-minute internet outage which knocked out the Gov.UK domain \u2013 as well as a string of publishers and other websites \u2013 cannot easily be dismissed as an isolated event. It also demonstrates a lack &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}