AORN
Services we provide:
- Digital strategy
- Website data tracking & analysis
- Website design & development
- Progress Sitefinity implementation
About AORN
AORN is the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, a community that started in 1949 in order to share best practices for operating room nurses. AORN is celebrating 75 years of being the largest family of organizations dedicated to supporting nurses and surgical teams with over 44,000 members nationwide. AORN shares information with its members through their digital assets, including the website. AORN came to the experts at SilverTech wanting a new digital member experience across all the AORN websites.
The Process
SilverTech’s strategy team reviewed the most current data from AORN and provided recommendations for enhancing components of all the websites for optimized data accuracy and clean data collection going forward. With this project, SilverTech met the challenge of moving seven websites from Sitecore to Sitefinity. Progress Sitefinity was the newly chosen platform for its ease of use, rich functionality and fully customizable features. This project required a design of seven unique styles and brands, creating widgets and content types that would accommodate their content needs for each of the seven entities. This includes the Outpatient Surgery magazine which had more than 12,000 articles. Other challenges with this project included the incorporation of ad space throughout the sites, SSO and member login functionality, custom search, scripted content migration and more.
RESULTS
Azure Outage July 2024: What You Need to Know About the Recent Website Downtime
7/31/24
What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, providing on-demand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. It enables organizations to efficiently store and manage data, enhance cybersecurity and compliance, and rapidly develop and deploy complex web applications.
What Happened?
On Tuesday morning, users started expressing their inability to access several Microsoft 365 products such as Office, Outlook, and Azure. Microsoft themselves have confirmed that the nearly 10-hour long outage was the result of a distributed denial of service cyberattack (DDoS) which was triggered by an unexpected usage spike that halted services to a standstill.
The Azure portal itself was impacted including access to web hosting plans. Reported user-flagged issues with Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure IoT Central, Microsoft Teams, Xbox Live and other services were also affected.
Resolution
As of now, Microsoft and Microsoft Azure services are back up and running correctly. Microsoft says it will publish a Preliminary Post Incident Review within approximately 72 hours from the incident to assess and discuss the incident and what the recovery process looks like.
It is necessary for firms to have protection in place to prevent DDoS from having an impact. The initial DDoS attack had activated protection mechanisms, but an error in the implementation of defenses "amplified the impact of the attack rather than mitigating it," Microsoft admits.
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You can view the latest status update from Azure here.
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