If safety regulations are written in blood, what are security policies written in? Sweat and cursing?
Australian health insurance company Medibank will take all of its IT systems offline and close its branches over the weekend as part of its ongoing efforts to improve security and recover from a massive data security breach in October.
The planned outage, dubbed Operation Safeguard, begins at 2030 Sydney time on Friday, December 9. The insurer said it expects all systems to be back online by Sunday "at the latest."
Microsoft's response team will show up at the insurer's Melbourne headquarters to help with the security overhaul.
"While there has been no further suspicious activity detected inside our systems since 12 October 2022, as part of the next stage of our work we are undertaking maintenance across some of our systems to further strengthen security," Medibank said in its most recent update.
The Oz outfit also added two-factor authentication in its contact centers, according to the alert.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/08/medibank_it_systems_defenses/