Many companies will need days or even weeks to fully recover from a computer outage, experts warn. This was reported by Ekonomicheskaya Pravda with a link to the Financial Times.
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Global Tech Failure
CrowdStrike, one of the world's largest security system providers, attributed the global outage that led to errors in Windows computers and servers, grounding of planes, interruption of TV channels, and a failure to update its Falcon software.
According to analysts , these outages were even more shocking given CrowdStrike's strong reputation as many companies' first line of defense against cyberattacks.
“This is the first time that a widely deployed security agent designed to protect computers actually causes them to break,” said Neil McDonald, an analyst at IT consultancy Gartner.
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This means that in companies with thousands of computers running Windows or with a shortage of IT specialists, it could take days or weeks to fix the problem. experts say.
“It looks like millions of computers will have to be repaired manually,” said Mikko Hypponen, research director at cybersecurity firm WithSecure.
Gartner estimates that CrowdStrike's share of the global enterprise endpoint security market comes from scanning. computers, phones and other devices against cyberattacks—more than double the revenue share of its three closest competitors: Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos. Only Microsoft is bigger.
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Citi analyst Fatima Bulan noted in a note to clients , that “Software providers have become so large and interconnected that their failures could cripple the global economic system. This may lead to increased political and regulatory attention.”
Recall
On the morning of July 19, many companies around the world, including exchanges, were faced with the problem of running Windows computers using software CrowdStrike Falcon.
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