Nobody answered the call from ColonialPipeline

Recovering from a cyber hack is a painful effort and requires all the support from internal and external teams. For sure #ColonialPipeline teams did feel the same way. It use to require nights and days of work even when you pay to get back your data and systems. 

Corrupted IT ecosystem requires tons of efforts to stabilize and allow the business to re-operate again.   

The preparedness before event is a detrimental key to ease all the uncertainty and difficult decisions that are needed on both business and technology during the event. 

But the Colonial Pipeline cyber hack is not as important for its inerrant characteristic than for its role in the US policy. It has been the first major official event on US energy infrastructure. Not the first one but the most visible one. 

The massive question remains how the #US will manage and learn from the event: as a National #crisis OR a private localized event?

The Biden administration immediately concerned by the event pushed the cyber agenda faster than initially planned. Could this be the #WakeUp call expected by the industry since 2013?    

Are the right question being asked ? 

Think again !