An outage is not an IT incident here, it is a public one. And the control-room file shares that nobody thinks about are on the same network as everything else.
Syslog CEF and REST, into the tool you already run
A failed transformer or somebody pulling the plug on purpose — either way, the second site only helps you if the switchover actually happens. Replication was never the hard part.
The failover waits for a person to be sure.
Outcome
Eighty minutes of downtime in a sector that reports them, a regulator asking why, and a split brain to explain afterward.
The second site takes over before anyone is woken.
Outcome
Minutes instead of an hour, no split brain, and a switchover you can show a regulator.
A scenario, not a case study — built from the way these incidents actually run.
Energy is an essential sector under NIS2, with the shortest patience for downtime of any of them.
Orientation, not legal advice. NIS2 applies through national transposition, so sector scope, thresholds and deadlines differ per country — check yours.
Documentation, schematics and maintenance records live on file shares that were set up when the plant was commissioned and have been inherited ever since.
“Without these solutions, I would feel less comfortable.”
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What you would be running
One appliance on your own hardware, in two feature packages. DataGovernance contains everything in DataDefense.
Two Packages
For IT teams who need critical data up, recorded and recoverable.
For security, compliance and AI teams who have to prove and control who reaches what.
Wherever your data already sits — NetApp, Lenovo, Dell and Microsoft, read at the data layer itself, with no agent on the file server.
Four fields, and somebody who knows ONTAP, PowerScale and what FPolicy does. Not a qualification call.
