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The CrowdStrike fail and next global IT meltdown already in the making


The best defense against the next CrowdStrike is requiring software updates to be rolled out incrementally and building redundancy into systems.

On a macro level, it is fair to assign some systemic blame within a world of enterprise IT that often views cybersecurity, data security, and the tech supply chain as "nice-to-have things" instead of essentials, and a general lack of cybersecurity leadership within organizations, said Nicholas Reese, former Department of Homeland Security official and instructor at New York University's SPS Center for Global Affairs. In the aftermath of the global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike software bug, IT experts point to the current system's excessive centralization of security as a problem. Among the best core defenses against having a business compromised by this level of technical failure is requiring software updates to be rolled out incrementally and building redundancy into systems.

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