Global Digital Resilience Testing Day

My MS Exchange inboxes for client accounts went dark. The global Microsoft outage is affecting my clients’ Microsoft365 environment, including Teams and e-mail. My own and my company’s environment does not use any MS product (except for Github and LinkedIn as non-essential services). Many others seem to be submitted to an, involuntary, live digital resilience test today, due to Exchange failures. Now that they can’t read their email, they may have time to read Bert Huberts warnings about the Dutch public sector’s utter dependency on a single US vendor, Microsoft, for their primary processes, and the enormous risk to sovereignty and a functioning society that constitutes. Those writings include the tips first to have a plan b, a way to move to something else, and second to test your dependence and plan b by switching everything MS off once in a while. Right now Microsoft is itself the instigator of a global digital resilience test day. This time it’s due to incompetence, not a…

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