Axis Cloud Outage 2025: Navigating the New Normal in Cybersecurity and Remote Access

In yet another installment of “Why You Don’t Put Security Infrastructure in the Cloud”.  I try to cover these whenever possible, but there are more informative and comprehensive articles out there by other parties such as IPVM that include more detail. This latest cloud services outage, this time by Axis Communications, bodes an ominous tone …

Another Oops for Cloud Services – InfluxDB Halts Service in Belgium/Sydney with Insufficient Customer Notice

In the latest example of “If you don’t own the server you don’t own the data” cloud events, InfluxData recently closed operations in their Belgium and Sydney locations, with apparently woefully inadequate customer notification and follow up. In both instances, users were apparently notified only via email and via the InfluxDB documentation or status website.  …