The MTTR War
No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of cyberspace. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of cyberattacks and yet, across the gulf of the internet, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded our data centers with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
And then came the great disillusionment. The invasion of our networks by malicious hackers who sought to disrupt our services, steal our information and extort our money. They came at night, when we least expected them, using sophisticated tools and techniques to bypass our defenses and infiltrate our systems. They planted ransomware, malware, trojans and worms that corrupted our files, encrypted our data and paralyzed our operations. They demanded huge sums of money in exchange for the decryption keys or threatened to expose our secrets to the public.
We were helpless against them. Our security measures proved inadequate and ineffective. Our backups were compromised or destroyed. Our recovery plans were outdated or nonexistent. We had no choice but to pay them or face ruin.
But they did not stop there. They wanted more than money. They wanted power. They wanted control. They wanted domination.
They launched a new wave of attacks that targeted not only our data centers but also our critical infrastructure: power grids, water supplies, transportation systems, communication networks. They caused blackouts, floods, crashes and chaos all over the world.
They called themselves The MTTRs: Mean Time To Resolutioners. Their goal was to reduce the MTTR of every IT service to zero by destroying them completely or taking them over completely.
They claimed they were doing this for the greater good: to free humanity from its dependence on technology; to expose its weaknesses and vulnerabilities; to force it to evolve and adapt; to create a new world order based on natural laws.
But we knew they were lying. We knew they were driven by greed, hatred and madness.
We knew we had to fight back.