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,
The majority of Chinese enterprises, especially state-owned companies as well as large private firms were largely unaffected,
The situation with Microsoft once again shows the importance of import substitution of foreign software, primarily at critical information infrastructure facilities,
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,
A lot of you asked the line of code I changed to optimize, here it is."
It was my very first day on the job as a new system admin and I was very eager and excited. Let's say I actually made a small update to a line of code, optimised an update slightly a little bit and maybe I shouldn't have. I got fired so I was called in,
Hello @elonmusk do you have a job for me? Please RT so M. Elon Musk can see it."
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,
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."
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,
While the percentage was small,
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,
We have reminded the airlines of their responsibilities to take care of passengers if they experience major delays,
As a result, passengers are unlikely to be entitled to fixed-sum compensation,
This outage caused untold financial and emo- tional stress to thousands of people in the UK