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> Thankfully most hospitals and research institutions in the states are smart enough to reject cloud-based solutions for this exact reason.

I have some news for you. If a hospital WAN goes down, most of them are in deep shit

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Yes and no, I have done quite a bit of cyber incident response work for large hospitals. Major system outages are very common and they are able to operate largely without internet for longer than you think.

In fact one of the containment measures was potentially unplugging it from the WAN.

Bad yes, deep shit probably not, depends on how long you might be offline for

And hooking systems into the cloud over the WAN helps them how?

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