The Crowdstrike outage and global software's single-point failure problem

CRWD The frequency of large-scale attacks on corporate enterprise IT is increasing. That's not unusual or unexpected as companies spend heavily on cyber defense in an asymmetric war against hackers who can string together a few lines of code and wreak havoc. Earlier this year, AT&T had a nationwide outage attributed to a technical update. Last year, the FAA had an outage that occurred after a single individual replaced a critical file in a route update (now that FAA has a backup system to prevent that from ...