{"id":34029,"date":"2020-03-25T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/if-theres-something-strange-in-symantecs-neighborhood-who-you-gonna-call-not-broadcom-it-seems-systems-go-down-cut-off-customers\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:47:07","slug":"if-theres-something-strange-in-symantecs-neighborhood-who-you-gonna-call-not-broadcom-it-seems-systems-go-down-cut-off-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/if-theres-something-strange-in-symantecs-neighborhood-who-you-gonna-call-not-broadcom-it-seems-systems-go-down-cut-off-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"If there&#8217;s something strange in Symantec&#8217;s neighborhood, who you gonna call? Not Broadcom, it seems: Systems go down, cut off customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec customers, or rather Broadcom customers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/08\/09\/broadcom_buys_symantec_for_10bn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these days<\/a>, were taken offline for a while on Wednesday when the security service&#8217;s data centers around the planet went down.<\/p>\n<p>The Web Security Service (WSS) platform, acquired when Broadcom hoovered much of Symantec&#8217;s operations last year, sells web-based site and file scanning for businesses. It is also integrated with some network appliances to provide patches and updates.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcom reported on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/wss.status.broadcom.com\/\">its status page<\/a> that WSS facilities across all regions went down for about two hours between 1542 UTC and 1742 today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware of multiple data centers located around the world currently having connectivity issues,&#8221; Bro, er, Symantec said at the time. &#8220;Customers may experience connectivity issues during this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is this such a problem? Allow Broadcom&#8217;s own marketing diagram to explain:<\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Border width_85\" readability=\"8\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/03\/25\/wss_diagram.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/03\/25\/wss_diagram.jpg?x=648&amp;y=341&amp;infer_y=1\" alt=\"Symantec WSS diagram\" title=\"Symantec WSS diagram\" height=\"341\" width=\"648\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">Put a big red X over that middle part, and you have Wednesday&#8217;s problem<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, yeah, no WSS data centers, no web connectivity for the companies that use it. Symantec&#8217;s internet filters were down, blocking connections flowing through them.<\/p>\n<p>One admin at a WSS customer, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to <em>El Reg<\/em> that the outage did, indeed, prevent their workers from getting online. &#8220;Presumably this will keep things even more secure than normal,&#8221; our tipster mused.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the downtime was resolved after only a couple of hours, and by 1742 the all-clear was given.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have confirmed that all data centers have been restored and customers should no longer be impacted,&#8221; Broadcom told punters. &#8220;We will continue to monitor the data centers to ensure the service is fully restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once all of the data-centers were back online, Broadcom said it was investigating the matter, though it did not say when it may have an explanation for the exact cause of the global fallover.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Register<\/em> pinged Broadcom for details on just what went wrong, and will update should we hear back.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Symantec-related headaches have, unfortunately, become rather <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/03\/03\/symantec-acquisition-by-broadcom-ends-in-license-support-chaos\/\">routine<\/a> for Broadcom, post-merger. For weeks now the mega-org has been breaking support forum links, and struggling to deal with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/09\/roundup_march6_2020\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disappearing licenses<\/a> as a result of staff turnover at the combined company. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1915\/-8375\/kemet-customer-story?td=wptl1915\">Webcast: Why you need managed detection and response<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/25\/broadcom_wss_outage\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now back on their feet after global two-hour wobble Symantec customers, or rather Broadcom customers these days, were taken offline for a while on Wednesday when the security service&#8217;s data centers around the planet went down.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If there&#039;s something strange in Symantec&#039;s neighborhood, who you gonna call? 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