Security Breakdowns' Effect on High Availability

The subject of security and high availability are rarely considered in the same breath. However, having built numerous (and varying) types of high availability solutions, it became apparent that one Achilles' heel was always present—that of properly planning, specifying, managing, and protecting the security related portions to these high availability solutions.

In other words, time after time, application failures and the need to recover an application from a backup were related to security breakdowns of some kind. In general, nearly 23% of application failures or applications that become inaccessible can be attributed to security related factors. Examples of various security related breakdowns ...

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