Following the recent ‘network connectivity’ problems which caused United Airlines to ground all US flights for nearly two hours, Nimmy Reichenberg, VP of Strategy for AlgoSec comments:

“The outage shows the impact that even apparently simple network operations can have on complex systems. Without a single view of their networks, and of the interdependencies and connections that enable key applications to work smoothly, organisations can experience these problems, which can have a big impact on their reputation and bottom line.

“Our 2014 State of Network Security survey found that 80% of organisations had experienced network or application outages as a result of unplanned changes. It’s therefore critical to be able to proactively assess the impact of network changes before deployment to minimise the risk of such outages.”