Fire protection in danger! IT breakdown brings the Berlin fire brigade out of rest

Fire protection in danger! IT breakdown brings the Berlin fire brigade out of rest

In Berlin there is an alarm mood at the fire brigade! The emergency services have repeatedly been plagued by computer systems for months. The employees are concerned because technical disorders are now becoming the rule, as a report by BZ shows. The fire brigade explains that these problems were "in the nature of the matter", but it is bubbling behind the scenes. Employees are increasingly reaching emails, which they inform about system-related restrictions, while the digital reporting service is not available. The problems are so serious that even important printer software no longer works.

The cause of these disorders remains unclear. "Are these targeted hacker attacks? Is it a signal for a neglected IT structure?" Asks an angry firefighter who has been fighting for weeks with the system failures. However, a spokesman for the fire brigade admits that so many servers in different data centers can often lead to individual failures. Much of these problems can be resolved quickly, but the current restrictions in reporting and personnel management system make the situation tense. External service providers are high -pressure to find solutions, but a quick improvement does not seem to be in sight, as the authority announced.

dangers from critical dependencies

This problem becomes even more explosive if you look at the dependencies of critical infrastructures, as the Federal Institute for Population Protection and Disaster Aid (BBK) explains. Failures in one area can quickly result in domino effects in other sectors. For example, a water supplier is dependent on a stable energy supplier - no water without electricity. The mutual dependencies represent a high risk and, if the IT problems persistent, other vital services, which the situation ever makes more complicated.

The events show how vulnable table can be our critical infrastructure while the fire brigade works against the clock to get its systems under control again. Die Unsicherheit darüber, ob und wann die Probleme behoben werden können, bleibt hoch, und die Zeit drängt.
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