The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.
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The warning signs are loud and clear: we’re headed into a crisis, thanks to the growing interdependence of digital and economic systems — with no safety nets.
Our interconnected world is also making us vulnerable to outages.
Affected businesses will naturally now be asking who is legally responsible, and whether there’ll be any compensation. These are important questions, but legally, the answers will be complex.
Software like Crowdstrike Falcon can access core computer systems and, essentially, spy on everything. We live with these tradeoffs – but perhaps we don’t have to.
Many big companies hate thinking about and preparing for so-called ‘black swan’ events –major catastrophies that are hard to predict. That isn’t a wise approach.
The recovery continues from the faulty software update applied to Microsoft operating systems.
We don’t yet know the full cost and scale of the damage, or how long it will take supply chains to fully recover.
The CrowdStrike outage reveals the fragility of interconnected systems – a digital monoculture makes us all vulnerable.
A faulty software update crippled airlines, hospitals and government services. A security researcher explains why it’s likely to happen again and what needs to be done to lower the odds of a repeat.
The problem was traced to a single Microsoft Windows update related to the firm Crowdstrike, but it could take days for companies to recover.
An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?
Enterprises across Australia and the world are struggling to cope with a huge software outage – but your home computer is probably safe.
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Chair of Information Management, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New England
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Calgary
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne