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Exclusive: Company relies on obsolete tech and there are troubling security gaps, Guardian investigation suggestsThames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’Floods, explosions, asbestos: Thames faces problems on all fronts“The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water.Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company, is on a “knife-edge” according to sources, with its resilience in doubt because it depends on an array of creaking – often Victorian – infrastructure. Continue reading…
Exclusive: Company relies on obsolete tech and there are troubling security gaps, Guardian investigation suggests
- Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’
- Floods, explosions, asbestos: Thames faces problems on all fronts
“The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water.
Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company, is on a “knife-edge” according to sources, with its resilience in doubt because it depends on an array of creaking – often Victorian – infrastructure.
