CIG blames CUC for communication shutdown
(CNS): Most of the Cayman Islands’ government departments experienced a network outage, Monday morning, after its fibre was cut during excavation work by the local power provider CUC, on Sunday, government officials stated. The Computer Services Department was described as “working diligently with various partners to restore all services”, and some internet service and emails were working by 9am but others were not restored until around noon today, though some websites still appeared to be down well into the afternoon.
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Dear Government, cyber security also means identifying your weaknesses and having contingency planning. If a single line cut can disrupt to the level reported, you have not done a good job. Sitting back and blaming CUC is part of the problem
Alas, though we may wish for the contrary, nobody would mistake our CIG of being overly reliant on technology of the contemporaneous world! There are still far too many hardcopy forms in carbonized triplicate and hand-stamps to be really impacted by tech breaches. Make sure to ask for a CIG receipt from their dot-matrix printer!
4.46 spot on. God forbid that CIG or CS ever came into the modern day and made people’s lives easier or meant less traffic by means of using technology. What would they do with those 6000 workers? 6000 in a country of 30,000 Caymanians. Getting paid for mostly not doing much, and certainly not helping people. And as long as that goes on, people will never understand what it takes to work in the private sector, nor learn how to succeed. It’s the biggest social welfare scheme ever and I bet it’s some of those that keep beefing about expats taking their jobs. So let’s say that the pension or other legislation irritates enough expats too leave, just where is the money going to come from to pay for those 6000? Wake up Cayman.
It also means having a realistic cost/benefit analysis. And if something can be fixed in a few hours (how long was the outage, really?) is it really a big deal? No, it isn’t. While losing internet and email for a few hours is annoying, is it critical? No, it isn’t. For truly critical things there are contingencies (cellphones; senior Govt. staff got this update on them before the public or general staff knew it had happened) for everything else there’s perspective and patience. You should try a dose.
You have missed the point entirely. Government has been very active writing policies for securing data, but overlooked infrastucture weakness such as this. Also you claim to write that it isn’t a big deal, but this would suggest how ignorant you are on the dependencies of digital data flow.
Still for if all if this incident happen in neighbouring countries trust me do you think it would be a quick fix? CUC is not perfect miistakes made quick sction taken to restore, not sure if they apologised however all back to normal, be thankful. Hopefully you all might all be rebated!
Wacky private sector getting worse civil service improves. Who would have believed this would happen.
CUC, please check before you dig out the iron shore at Rum Point
Day off at CIG and CS, bigger CUC bills for us!
Classic. How does your slogan go again, CUC? Check before you dig?!?
Dig up North Side beachfront ironshore. Tell a Caymanian to try that and see what justice gets served – Can I get a Hello 2nd class citizens.
Joe Imparato is a Caymanian now.
Sad