Originally Posted By: Eugene
Even with redundancy remember there was one bank that used Microsoft servers for their ATM database and was down due to a worm that infected all the database servers so there will always be something that wasn;t covered.


You are correct, there is no such thing as being prepared for all contingencies.
There are far too many variables and in the case of the Slammer worm attacks on Jan 25, 2003, this attack could of easily been preventable by ALL companies who were affected as Microsoft had a patch available for the vulnerability months before the attack.