Today’s IT outage blurred my thinking about technology advancement. Our generation claims credit for having developed the tech industry more than before. Do we really have IT infrastructure the world can rely on? How can a single update in one company affect every corner of the world?
Today, I have been following the IT chaos caused by the failure of the IT system in airlines, banks, hospitals, etc.
Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike has admitted that an update to its antivirus software, which is designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from malicious attacks, caused the problem.
According to Crowdstrike boss George Kurtz, the issues only impacted Windows PCs and no other operating systems and were caused by a defect in a recent update.
“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” he said.
According to BBC News, the issue started at 19:00 GMT on Thursday, July 18, 2024, affecting Windows users running the cybersecurity software CrowdStrike Falcon. According to Microsoft, the full extent of the problem only became clear by Friday morning.
My concerns remain about how robust the global IT infrastructure is if one company, which is not among the giant tech companies, can cause a global panic.
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