The importance of continuous testing for critical infrastructure resilience in AWS environments

Continuous testing is a key component of building resilient critical infrastructure. By continuously testing critical infrastructure systems, organizations can identify and fix vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This helps to reduce the risk of outages and service disruptions that could have a significant impact on the resilience of the infrastructure.

Most, if not all, outages that have taken place so far are due to a specific scenario not having been tested and mitigation actions planned for. One such incident that had a major economic impact on the organization was the Equifax data breach. In the year 2017, Equifax, an American credit monitoring agency suffered a massive, large-scale data breach, exposing sensitive information of 147 million customers. As a result, Equifax faced multiple fines and settlements related to the 2017 data breach, totaling up to $700 million,...