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6 insights every CIO should take away from the CrowdStrike debacle
Technology tamfitronics Technology tamfitronics Blamestorming for fun and profit: The debris has mostly cleared from the CrowdStrike outage. But we still haven’t recognized some of the IT impacts that matter most.In early 2000, following IT’s unprecedentedly effective response to the Y2K situation, the world botched its after-action review. Consumed by the need to have someone to blame, influencers from around the world proclaimed it was a hoax perpetrated by IT to inflate technology budgets and its perceived importance.Happy to have a scapegoat, the world ignorantly sneered and then moved on to the next pseudo-culprit.So now we have CrowdStrike. Consumed by the need to have someone to blame, and with Microsoft as a sitting duck perched precariously atop a dubious patch pile, influencers around the world are determined to expend their energies and (speaking of dubious)...
CrowdStrike failure: the beginning of the end of software without guarantees?
Technology tamfitronics Technology tamfitronics CrowdStrike’s crash-inducing security software update raises concerns about suppliers’ responsibility to offer quality guarantees for their products.Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software testing regime mean for the IT industry as a whole? Experts and analysts say that the idiosyncrasies of the technology sector mean it could easily happen again.Quality vs speedCrowdStrike has given its version of events leading up to the July 19 crash.But for independent IT expert Fernando Maldonado, one of the causes of CrowdStrike’s failure is in the way the cybersecurity industry competes with cybercriminals. “There is a race to always cover the latest threats. So, to close the window between when a threat is...
CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over huge software outage
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Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues
Technology tamfitronics Updated Jul 20, 2024 – 4.33am, first published at Jul 19, 2024 – 4.50pmSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems globally.Microsoft and CrowdStrike rolled out fixes and systems were being restored, though it’s expected to take time to completely recover from the disruptions.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Read MoreLatest In TechnologyFetching latest articlesMost Viewed In Technology
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