CrowdStrike glitch shows we’re all in this digital economy together
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You might not have heard of CrowdStrike up until now, but you probably won't forget the name if you are among the countless people around the world impacted by what is likely the biggest computer outage in history. A single bug in a routine software update from the online security company crashed computer systems like dominoes, demonstrating with a flourish how interdependent the tech infrastructure behind the global economy is.
Even if your business has nothing to do with CrowdStrike, you may still have been impacted. Think of a café that uses third-party online reservation services, contracts out food deliveries or relies on back-end payment systems to process credit and debit cards. Some aspect of just about any business is likely to touch this often-invisible digital network that is largely self-regulating and that almost none of us understands completely.
IT experts say the CrowdStrike glitch exposes how few safeguards are in place to prevent the kind of mass chaos we've seen over the past few days (and will continue to see for at least a few days more, according to Delta Air Lines). Companies need "a better model of operational redundancy and back-ups," a global business expert at Georgetown's McDonough Business School says, arguing that IT infrastructure should be subject to "the same kind of rigor, testing and oversight that we see for the likes of Boeing or JPMorgan."
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