This has been an interesting case. A digital tank on your front lawn is not pleasant. If a country allows its citizens to separate a government from its people, I submit that it is State sanctioned terrorism. If a government does it, then it is an act of war. So we need to watch this with great care. NATO is right to be concerned. An act like this for the big economies would be very powerful – government systems, most banking, 10% of retail sales and much more would cause a run on currencies and Stock Markets.  This is far from a joke and not far from home.

For companies this is a wake-up call. It is now even more important to have both risk management and crisis management in place to protect digital assets.

It is not impossible and it has been interesting to see how Estonia has responded.

Regrettably our accounting systems are very poor at valuing digital assets but imaging the insurance cost for this one!

I called it a Digital Tank on the Estonian Government’s lawn.

It could happen to other countries but also to companies.

Most organisations do need both Internet mediated  Risk Management and Crisis Management in place these days and it has been interesting to identify available strategies in this live case as well.

It is shocking what has happened and we too are watching and reporting official stuff here:
http://www.altex-marketing.com/category/estonia-russia/