https://www.isquiz.com/tags/backup-verification/Recent content in Backup Verification on iSquiz.comHugo -- gohugo.ioeniSquiz.comMon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.isquiz.com/post/it-tasks-worth-automating/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.isquiz.com/post/it-tasks-worth-automating/ <p>When the 2017 Equifax breach was investigated, congressional and federal auditors traced part of the failure to a routine gap nobody had automated: a network device responsible for inspecting encrypted traffic had been running on a security certificate that had lapsed, and the lapse went unnoticed while attackers were inside the network, according to the <strong><a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-559">Government Accountability Office</a></strong>'s review of the breach and the federal response to it. That single missed renewal is a useful frame for a broader pattern — the repetitive IT tasks that quietly stop happening the moment nobody owns them, not because they're technically hard, but because they're tedious enough to get skipped under deadline pressure.</p>