Easipay system outage highlights deeper issue

PNG Power Blames Old Systems for Nationwide Easy-Pay Breakdown

A prolonged disruption to electricity purchases across Papua New Guinea has exposed weaknesses in PNG Power Limited’s infrastructure, with management pointing to aging technology and offshore systems as key causes.The outage affected households and businesses nationwide, leaving many struggling to access prepaid electricity tokens for several days.PNG Power’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Bayly said investigations ruled out cyber intrusion, inste…

Easipay system outage highlights deeper issue

The Easipay System outage in the country has highlighted a deeper issue, and that is the risk associated with offshore hosting of critical national infrastructure. PNG Power Chief Executive officer Paul Bayly stated that while the Easipay System is stable it also highlighted the deeper issue associated with offshore hosting and that is why PPL has taken decisive action to transition access to the Easipay System and it's data back under national …