Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   OK, Here it is, Goofy Date:   5/13/2021 8:18:14 AM

I can't speak for Colonial, although they are a client of ours on the environmental side, but we have off-site cloud-based backups of everything on our servers.  I can't imagine that they don't as well.  I agree that they should have an emergency system in place that is remote from the current one but I suspect it is hugely complicated to transfer all users over to the mirror system (i.e., not just a matter of flipping a switch) but I don't know enough about it to be sure.  What they did say is they shut down the pipelines out of fear the hackers could access the control systems and do even more damage.  That seems prudent to me.

These hackers are working 24/7 all over the internet trying to gain access to business systems for ransom.  What would you bet they got in because one of the employees fell for a pfishing email?  I get the constantly even with our sophisticated spam filter systems.  What I like to tell people is you think this is bad, see what happens if we get hit with an EMP.  It will be mass chaos and make sitting in line for gas look like child's play.