Jaguar Land Rover suppliers 'face bankruptcy' due to hack crisis

The government has been urged to "act fast" to protect hundreds of jobs following the cyber attack.

@SwiftOnSecurity Ouch indeed. The ugly flip side of 'just in time' manufacturing.
@ChuckMcManis @SwiftOnSecurity WHERE WILL PEOPLE BUY CRAPPY LUXURY CARS NOW?!?!
@ai6yr @SwiftOnSecurity The sad thing is that they could continue to take deliveries into warehouses, which can be rented for this, and keep their suppliers alive. But then it would cost Rover/Jaguar to pay to warehouse those parts vs letting their suppliers die instead.
@ChuckMcManis i think a company of thr size of JLR is unable to "just rent a warehouse" without it's IT. All the processes are not made to run without a computer. @ai6yr @SwiftOnSecurity
@hikhvar @ai6yr @SwiftOnSecurity Hmm, you may be correct. That said I got a good inside look at IBM's Finance operation when they bought a startup I was in and I had to move the contracts over to them. They are a pretty big company ($200+B) and they had ways to do contracts without IT. All you _really_ need is a fax machine and a room full of lawyers.
@ChuckMcManis @hikhvar @SwiftOnSecurity LOL I suspect a great deal of the current workforce has never heard of a "fax machine" before.
@ai6yr @hikhvar @SwiftOnSecurity True, but I can assure you that their lawyers have. 😃
@ChuckMcManis given you have no access to your internal wiki, can you even figure out what are the correct lawyers? @ai6yr @SwiftOnSecurity
@SwiftOnSecurity would be interesting to look at their risk register and see what has been acceptable risk appetite before this.
@SwiftOnSecurity Wow, I hadn't even heard of this. Guess I've been avoiding news a little too hard
@SwiftOnSecurity ‘Events beyond their control’. Like having a business continuity plan you’ve actually practiced.