{"id":288959,"date":"2026-07-13T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/jurassic-park-cybersecurity-and-the-dangerous-myth-of-control\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:45:24","slug":"jurassic-park-cybersecurity-and-the-dangerous-myth-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/jurassic-park-cybersecurity-and-the-dangerous-myth-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park, cybersecurity and the dangerous myth of control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jurassic Park, cybersecurity and the dangerous myth of control<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4195710\/jurassic-park-cybersecurity-and-the-dangerous-myth-of-control.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-13 06:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This is where resilience starts becoming an engineering problem rather than a compliance exercise.<\/p>\n

When restoration assumptions fail<\/h2>\n

Because the real question is no longer, \u201cHow quickly can we restore the application?\u201d<\/p>\n

The real question is, \u201cWhat happens if we cannot restore it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jurassic Park repeatedly explored exactly this scenario. The real panic never started when the fences failed. It started when the operators realized they could not regain control quickly enough.<\/p>\n

Businesses now face the same risk.<\/p>\n

What happens if AWS experiences a prolonged outage? What happens if Azure Identity Services fail globally? What happens if Stripe, Salesforce, Slack, or Microsoft 365 disappear for days rather than hours?<\/p>\n

Many organizations do not actually have business continuity strategies for those situations.<\/p>\n

They have restoration assumptions.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, most organizations directly owned large portions of their operational stack. Today, companies increasingly rent critical business capability from a relatively small number of providers.<\/p>\n

Identity. Infrastructure. Communications. Payments. Collaboration. Customer operations.<\/p>\n

The efficiency gains are enormous.<\/p>\n

So is the concentration risk.<\/p>\n

Resilience as an engineering discipline<\/h2>\n

Historically, business continuity planning assumed localized disruption. A building burned down. A regional data center failed. A storm impacted an office. The internet itself was not the dependency.<\/p>\n

Today, entire businesses are built on tightly interconnected SaaS and cloud ecosystems where operational survivability depends on third parties remaining continuously available.<\/p>\n

We optimized organizations for efficiency, automation, integration, and scale.<\/p>\n

Not necessarily survivability.<\/p>\n

That is why resilience needs to evolve beyond annual tabletop exercises and static recovery plans.<\/p>\n

True resilience is not a binder sitting on a shelf. It is not a workshop performed once a year. It…<\/p>\n

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