{"id":49511,"date":"2024-07-23T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=49511"},"modified":"2024-07-23T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:06:46","slug":"cyber-resilience-experts-react-to-global-it-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/cyber-resilience-experts-react-to-global-it-outage\/49511\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber resilience experts react to global IT outage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Due to its effect across the world, the IT outage could potentially be the worst in history.<\/p>\n
The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike, which sent a corrupted software update to its large number of customers.<\/p>\n
Andrew Peck, a cyber resilience PhD researcher at Loughborough University, commented: \u201cWaking up to discover that chunks of the digital infrastructure<\/a> we rely on are not functional is a seemingly increasing feature of the cyber-physical infrastructure that modern economies and societies depend on.<\/p>\n \u201cCompanies that still don\u2019t have these strategies in place will be watching the relative success of their rivals today and realising that this has to become part of what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n The recent IT outage highlights a critical gap: while experienced users can implement the workaround, expecting millions to do so is impractical.<\/p>\n Professor Oli Buckley, a cybersecurity professor, explained: “The real challenge lies in deploying the workaround across all affected systems \u2013 a non-trivial task demanding coordinated efforts so a proper patch can be put in place.<\/p>\nA \u2018critical gap\u2019 in cyber infrastructure<\/h3>\n