When the Lights Go Out, the Ransomware Doesn’t: Building Cyber Resilience for Africa’s Real Operating Environment
"Constraints are a specification, not an excuse. African operating conditions are not a degraded version of a 'real' environment; they are the reality. A resilient SOC designed honestly for these conditions is not a lesser system—it is a correctly specified one, built on principles of survivability that the always-on world has the luxury of ignoring."
Constraints are a specification, not an excuse. African operating conditions are not a degraded version of a 'real' environment; they are the reality. A resilient SOC designed honestly for these conditions is not a lesser system—it is a correctly specified one, built on principles of survivability that the always-on world has the luxury of ignoring."
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