We are all consultants. Lets guess what caused Delta systems to go down today. Am not asking for a slide, just picking your brains...

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Hacked-together systems with inadequate understanding of interdependencies and critical control points as root cause. Effects amplified by DL's outsize market position and low numbers of vacant seats on shrinking numbers of competitors.

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Anything built after 2002 would, but without knowing how old that portion of deltas infrastructure is I can only guess... A lot of the older systems (as400, aix, winnt, hpux, etc) are ran on a prayer as there's a chance any restart would be lights out for good... Also most of the original developers of the one off apps have long since retired, so maybe it was one of those apps running on a server affected by the power outage that caused the failure?

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When did Deloitte hire Trump? 😂

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MC1 for the win - just Google the answer! Now bill 8 hours for your innovative thinking 😉

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Someone tripped over the computers power cord, knocking it out of the outlet

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Didn't they already say it was due to a power outage in Georgia?

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CHINA IS HACKING AND TRYING TO TAKE OVER OUR GREAT AND PROSPEROUS NATION.

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Hacked. They say it was a power outage, but I'm sure hackers were testing something.

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Power outage story doesn't hold water

1. Georgia Southern has stated there was no outage

2. Any, in fact every, decent critical system has a redundant back up system in a different location.

One of the things that worked perfectly on 9/11, less than 8 seconds of data was lost

3. This could be a bad update by IBM, but the redundant system should have been able to counter that. Beau guess is it's piss poor IA systems and a malicious hack

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It's CHYYYNAA..get it right D4 (Trump's tiny hands approve this message 🤗)

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Pissed off script kitty from DefCon

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Inadequate business continuity plan. Power outages, system failures all these things happen. That's why we push strong continuity plans.

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fsociety

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Wikileaks leaving no stone unturned looking for Trump's tax returns and Clinton's 30k emails

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The light switch that nobody can figure out what it's attached to...

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I think they released a bad code without testing enough or the infra guy doing doing maintenance on Sunday evening screwed up

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Skynet

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10000% IBM's fault

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Lol pwc4!

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It was an inside job- All the consulting companies hacked Delta so that they can make money in selling cyber security work and use the new hires this year

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Elliot Alderson

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D9 no one got that. I did

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