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Some companies go through life never having to dust off their manual on crisis management. Optus is embroiled in its second disaster in little more than a year.<\/p>\n

This company is either highly accident-prone or \u2013 statistically improbable as it might be \u2013 extremely unlucky.<\/p>\n

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Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin made it through the cyberhacking incident. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>Michael Quelch<\/cite><\/p>\n

History shows that the chief executive presiding over a crisis rarely survives one let alone two. Regardless of whether they are directly culpable, they are considered accountable.<\/p>\n

Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin made it through the cyberhacking affair in part because she had the backing of Optus offshore owner SingTel, rather than a bunch of Australian institutional shareholders.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the Singaporean owners will view this as an incident outside Bayer Rosmarin\u2019s control and close their ears to the social media lynching mob that is baying for a scalp.<\/p>\n

Bayer Rosmarin, who became a household name during the cyberattack, is an ambitious, tenacious and self-confident executive who is no stranger to networking in the Australian business community. In September, she joined fellow directors on the REA Group board in Europe for some offsite fact-finding (and attended a Rugby World Cup game), and the previous month she joined iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest\u2019s wild party in the Pilbara to celebrate Fortescue\u2019s 20th birthday. She was also front and centre during the Matilda\u2019s quest for the FIFA World Cup, to which Optus held the broadcasting rights.<\/p>\n

History shows that the chief executive presiding over a crisis rarely survives one let alone two.<\/p>\n

During interviews on Wednesday, Bayer Rosmarin didn\u2019t respond to questions on her own corporate future.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s worth noting that when Telstra experienced a similar major outage in 2016, its then-chief executive Andy Penn weathered that storm and retained his position.<\/p>\n

If there is only one (albeit) small silver lining to Wednesday\u2019s Australia-wide outage, it is that Bayer Rosmarin should have been able to learn from the mistakes made last year during the cyberattack.<\/p>\n

The key to her response is communication \u2013 something that logic suggests should have come naturally to a communications company chief executive.<\/p>\n

During the cyberattack, a lack of regular disclosure to customers and the public created an information void \u2013 which politicians were eager to fill.<\/p>\n

The government was ready with a sledgehammer \u2013 feeding off information from cyber experts who were convinced that Optus should shoulder some blame for its substandard fortification from attack, which made it vulnerable to cyber thieves.<\/p>\n

Even now, we don\u2019t really know whether Optus was culpable \u2013 it says it wasn\u2019t. But the investigation report from Deloittes that would provide those answers was kept under wraps.<\/p>\n

Optus has relied on legal professional privilege as a defence for not revealing the details, adding that it might also leave it vulnerable to future cyberattacks.<\/p>\n

It should have thought of this when it indicated earlier that it would make the report public and when its chairman told shareholders that it would be transparent.<\/p>\n

The absence of any even edited version of the Deloitte findings only serves to suggest that Optus didn\u2019t like what was in the report.<\/p>\n

What this week\u2019s outage has demonstrated is that Optus was again tardy with timely information.<\/p>\n

These crises are fluid so constant updates are important. Retail and commercial customers are at best disadvantaged every minute they are deprived of digital breath \u2013 at worst they are commercially crippled.<\/p>\n

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As Telstra chief in 2016, Andy Penn kept his position after a widespread outage. <\/span>Credit: <\/span> <\/cite><\/p>\n

As a community, many more than just customers were impacted as trains drew to a halt and some hospitals lost vital communications.<\/p>\n

But in the early hours of the disaster, Bayer Rosmarin was hard to find, social media posts were brief and many of the customers couldn\u2019t access them because they had no phone or internet connection.<\/p>\n

In Optus\u2019 defence, it wasn\u2019t sure what had caused the problem or how long it would take to fix.<\/p>\n

By the time Bayer Rosmarin took to commercial radio around lunchtime, she could proclaim the good news that services had begun being restored.<\/p>\n

The question that now needs answering is whether this was a problem of Optus\u2019 own making or just one of the perils faced in running a huge complex network. Has it invested sufficiently in its IT infrastructure?<\/p>\n

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