Global IT outage highlights world’s reliance on small number of tech companies: security expert

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An information security expert says Friday’s widespread technology outage that brought down computer systems across the globe is another example of how reliant the world has become on a small number of tech companies.

Alex Hamerstone, advisory solutions director of Trustedsec, joins BNN Bloomberg and talks about global tech outage.that brought down computer systems across the globe is another example of how reliant the world has become on a small number of tech companies.

and that it was working to get systems back online for its customers, but the impacts are expected to be felt throughout the day and beyond in the form of delays and closures. “ apparently had some issues which caused the Microsoft servers and endpoints that were running to have significant issues and not be able to run,” Hamerstone said.George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s CEO, reiterated in a social media post Friday that the incident was not a cyber attack, and that customers remain “fully protected.”We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption.

Hamerstone added that there are ways to prevent outages like this in the future, including running more tests on software updates before they’re sent out.

 

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