The CrowdStrike outage should make us rethink the resiliency of our tech infrastructure. It probably won’t
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The tech solutions we rely on are often less polished than they appear. We just learned that lesson—once again—the hard way.
Very late Thursday night, the world got a firsthand look at how vulnerable our computer infrastructure is. A glitch in an update to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor tool pushed out by engineers caused a catastrophic error that resulted in potentially millions of Windows computers worldwide crashing into a blue screen of death.