Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun
The institution says in a new report looking into the incident that many of its systems can't be restored due to their age. They will either no longer work on the fresh infrastructure or they simply can't get any vendor support after going end of life .wider access to, and opportunities to compromise, its network and systems than they would normally expect with more typical corporate targets.
As for why the British Library was running systems so old they can no longer be restored, it says The Legal Deposit Libraries Regulations, introduced in 2013, had a big part to play. Its research services, for example, remain incomplete even after the January return of the Library's online catalog search functionality. It was substantially restricted in the two months immediately after the attack too.
Speaking of managing all of that, it seems as though the Library may have its work cut out for it. By its own admission, the tech team was"overstretched" prior to the attack and there was no mention of this being rectified between then and now.
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