United Airlines, NYSE, Wall Street Journal website offline for a short period due to computer problems. Cybersecurity experts have shared their thoughts on the impact of this morning’s disruptions. The level of interdependence in technology continues to increase steadily. High Availability (minimum downtime) and especially Fault Tolerance (no single point of failure) is very expensive, and for as long as cost of implementation exceeds the cost of outage, businesses are not going to do it. An error made by a developer half-way around the world somewhere in the supply chain of a service can impact the operations of major businesses like United.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/tech-experts-comment-on-ua-nyse-computer-problems/