Security News > 2024 > March > Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

Opinion Quiz time: name one thing you know about the Library of Alexandria.

The Rhysida ransomware attack on the British Library last October didn't have the visceral physical aspect that creates a folk memory, but it should for anyone who makes enterprise IT. Five months on, not only are significant systems not restored, they've gone forever.

The gories are all in a substantial, detailed report released by the British Library itself.

If a report of an air accident investigation revealed anything like the scope and systemic misadventure of the British Library report, it would shake up the aviation world so hard its rivets would pop.

Nobody dies at the moment of a major failure of systemic integrity such as the British Library experienced.

In the absence of sustainable organizational sanity in how it sees IT, the British Library report can still be useful through subversion.

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