Global IT outages due to Crowdstrike got the whole world shook up (The FAA has grounded flights from Delta, United and AA)

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Gotta wonder what the QA is that they would have missed this file potentially crashing systems.

All the automation in the world not saving you from a BSOD, where the fix is to go into safe mode and remove a file. You need hands on deck for that. Think of the kiosks and other systems that are going to need fixing.

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Crowdstrike has lost a fifth of its value in pre-market trading in the US - down 21% in unofficial trading.

If confirmed when US stock markets open later today, that is a loss of $16 billion in its overnight valuation.

Industry insiders say the problem is centred on the fact that cloud security companies have very high level privileges to update the core systems of their customers.

When this works, it helps protect their systems. When an attempted update fails, it brings down the systems they are supposed to protect, all at once.

While the fix is in theory, simple - updating systems physically from backup disks - in practice this is now more difficult in a cloud computing world. G

Governments face serious questions about how resilient our economic infrastructure is to this sort of epic failure.

Does it make sense to allow significant concentration on one company or product?
 
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