The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.
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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.
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.
The CrowdStrike outage reveals the fragility of interconnected systems – a digital monoculture makes us all vulnerable.
An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New England
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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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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne