A Faulty CrowdStrike Update Causes Major Outage

Following news of cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike's faulty software update creating global disruptions, Principal AnalystAllie Mellenand VP, Principal AnalystAndras Csercomment on the outage.

Associated Press: How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world

The Wall Street Journal: "Why the Old Reboot Trick Won't Work This Time"

Financial Times: "Companies around the world hit by Microsoft outage"

The Daily Mail: "How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world"

ZDNet: "Who needs ransomware when a faulty software update can shut down critical infrastructure?"

The Daily Mail: "CrowdStrike outage continues to wreak havoc around the globe - as the firm claims a 'significant number' of the 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the blackout are back online"

Yahoo! Finance: "Explainer: How CrowdStrike knocked the world offline"

CIO Dive:"CrowdStrike software update at the root of a massive global IT outage"

TechRepublic:"CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide"

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