Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered chaos taking place. Servers were no longer online. Crucial systems were encrypted. And digital catalogues had disappeared altogether. A cultural institution renowned all over the world, one that looks after 170 million items spanning three millennia, had been hit by a sophisticated ransomware attack that would impact it to this day. Yet the attack didn’t begin that Saturday morning. Two days earlier, on 25 October at 23:29, forensic logs captured the…
Kashif Nazir
Kashif Nazir
Kashif Nazir is a Senior Technical Architect at Cloudhouse. He leads multi‑cloud modernisation on AWS, Azure, GCP and on‑premises, establishing automation and application packaging practices that reduce risk and improve consistency. He partners with product and engineering across multiple Cloudhouse products to align architecture with business goals and applies practical AI to improve reliability and speed in delivery and operations. He is AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.