Manufacturing Business Technology: The Impact Of Partner Outages and Changing the Downtime Conversation

Josh Davies, Principal Market Strategist at Fortra, was featured in a recent Manufacturing Business Technology article examining the growing impact of partner and vendor outages. The article explores why outages occur across major cloud and security providers. It looks at how frequent security updates can disrupt availability and why many organizations now accept downtime as part of a broader cyber resilience strategy. Josh adds context from incident response practices, where protecting confidentiality and integrity comes first. In that light, outages are often viewed as a better outcome than data loss, ransomware, or long-term compromise. 

Originally published in Manufacturing Business Technology.
 
Excerpt: “Outages do impact availability, but for the most part they stop there. And the only alternative that can outweigh downtime is security.” 

Read the article.