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It's also a reminder of how important it is for all of us across the tech ecosystem to prioritise operating with safe deployment and disaster recovery using the mechanisms that exist,
Deploying hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts to work directly with customers to restore services,
Microsoft said in a blog post on July 20. This is the only way to ensure that a small bug, a minor update, or minor attack will not cause an outage to the entire society, city or country in the era of digitalization and intelligence,
Its timing couldn’t have been worse on a Friday, and in particular, impacting on a Friday afternoon,
Across the board there’s been a wide impact, that’s cost a lot of businesses time, money, lost sales … it’s very hard to put a dollar figure on that,
If you have an automobile, and you take that automobile to the fuel station and you get fuel that is not quality fuel or corrupted fuel, your automobile is not going to work properly,
Johnson said in an interview Friday CrowdStrike lives at a layer within Microsoft Windows" to provide "the utmost of security. They live at a layer that truly does impact the entirety of the Windows infrastructure if they get it incorrect."
In a similar way, Johnson said While the percentage was small,
the Redmond, Washington-based company said It does emphasise that we live in a world of dependency and vulnerability and that disruption can and will happen and IT is at the core of our day to day operations, our businesses, our economies, everything about our lives. So this will happen and will continue to happen,
Our risk registers, our understanding of what can go wrong or what might go wrong, doesn't change because of an incident like this. The reality is that risk exists every day,
This outage caused untold financial and emo- tional stress to thousands of people in the UK
But Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy the PC Agency, told The Sunday Times of the CAA statement We recognise the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals
In a statement issue on Saturday, Microsoft said Our teams will be working actively through the weekend as we continue to resolve remaining issues in preparation for the start of the work week,
the hospital wrote in a statement We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,
Kurtz said in a statement While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services,
Microsoft said in its blog post What Crowdstrike was doing was rolling out its updates to everyone at once. That is not the best idea. Send it to one group and test it. There are levels of quality control it should go through,
You need the right checks and balances in companies. It could have been a single person that decided to push this update, or somebody picked the wrong file to execute on,
It's just that due to what CrowdStrike does, the fallout here is catastrophic,
Buggy code was rolled out via the auto-update feature, and, well, here we are,
One mistake has had catastrophic results. This is a great example of how closely tied to IT our modern society is — from coffee shops to hospitals to airports, a mistake like this has massive ramifications,