Iran’s reported cyberattack on a major U.S. company is another reminder that we keep trusting the wrong foundation.
When one compromised management console can brick fleets of devices overnight, you’re looking at the Achilles’ heel of monolithic operating systems: a single, uniform stack where the same flaw, the same credential, or the same misconfiguration scales instantly across an entire global fleet.
If we want true resilience, we have to move away from “one OS to rule them all” and toward architectures that assume compromise, contain blast radius, and don’t let one control plane hold the whole business hostage.