Running NZ to failure

Running NZ to failure
China need not sabotage our critical infrastructure, we are doing a pretty good job of that ourselves. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
As hospitals in the United Kingdom reverted to pen and paper for part of last week, the New Zealand way of running our assets to failure was vindicated. Hospitals across the developed world might have been using CrowdStrike, but ours weren’t. That wasn’t such an asset a few years ago when a cyberattack crippled the Waikato District Health Board (DHB) for several days, surgeries and cancer treatments were delayed, and confidential patient data became online ransom material.'A fragile state'After reading a recent bri...

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