Are We Ready For The Next Major Global IT Outage? Here’s All You Need to Know

Last Friday, a glitch in the tech firm led to a global disruption impacting cross-sector activities. Hospitals, health clinics, and banks were impacted; airlines grounded their planes; broadcasting firms were unable to broadcast (Sky News went off the air); emergency numbers such as 911 in the United States were unavailable; and MDA experienced several troubles in Israel.

This incident had a significant impact in the United States, Australia, and Europe. Critical infrastructure and many corporate operations were brought to a halt. In Israel, citizens instantly linked the incident to warfare, namely the UAV that arrived from Yemen and exploded in Tel Aviv, presuming that Iran was attacking in the cyber dimension.

What exactly happened?

CrowdStrike, an American firm based in Texas that provides a cybersecurity protection system deployed in several companies across the world, announced on Friday morning that there was a glitch with the most recent version of their system given to customers. The issue caused Microsoft’s operating system, Windows, not to load, resulting in a blue screen. As a result, any organisational systems that

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