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With the global development of technology, countries have made remarkable progress in the field of information technology. The introduction of multiple suppliers means that more technology paths and product solutions can be chosen to meet different needs and reduce cybersecurity risks,
Domestic government and business entities have a large user base of Windows hosts, yet we were almost unaffected by such a large-scale incident. This is because Chinese users can choose their own security products. This highlights to domestic entities, from government to individual users, the significant importance of China's self-reliance and strength in the cybersecurity industry and technology,
Xiao Xinguang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chief software architect from Chinese cybersecurity company Antiy, told the Global Times on Sunday The majority of Chinese enterprises, especially state-owned companies as well as large private firms were largely unaffected,
Wang Liejun, a security expert from QI-ANXIN Technology Group Inc, told the Global Times on Sunday The situation with Microsoft once again shows the importance of import substitution of foreign software, primarily at critical information infrastructure facilities,
I am hearing reports of some airlines only offering flight credits to passengers for canceled flights,
We recognise the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals. Our focus is providing customers with technical guidance and support to safely bring disrupted systems back online,
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,
A core issue is the ability of a digitally-enabled service function to switch immediately to manual,
It seems that millions of computers are going to have to be fixed by hand,
said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at WithSecure, a cybersecurity company The outage is likely to intensify regulations for critical services and risk management,
said Dr. Madeleine Stevens, an IT expert at Liverpool John Moores University We have reminded the airlines of their responsibilities to take care of passengers if they experience major delays,
Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation, said, per the Associated Press Despite the incident not being a cyberattack, consumer skepticism will inadvertently be impacted, and this unintended demonstration of our cyber vulnerability will raise significant challenges for IT service providers,
The more interconnected the software is, the more vulnerable we will be, because more and more software will interact and it will increase,
Legay said in an interview with Euronews Next When just three companies -- Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google -- dominate the market for cloud computing, one minor incident can have global ramifications,
wrote Parmy Olson, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology, on Friday Unlike some previous outages that targeted Internet infrastructure, this situation directly impacts end-user computers and could require manual intervention to resolve, posing a significant challenge for IT teams globally,
As a result, passengers are unlikely to be entitled to fixed-sum compensation,
We've had these sorts of outages before and nothing has changed, partly because the tech industry has been so adept at shifting blame. If that continues, then the monopolists will do what they please and everyone will suffer what they must,
In other words, there needs to be an ability to provide services using paper rather than digital solutions. The real danger is that we all forget how to live and work in a pre-digital environment,