CrowdStrike: will anything really change?

It’s been described as the world’s biggest IT failure. Barry Collins investigates whether any lessons will be learned

Exclusive investigations into technology practices. Email probe@pcpro.co.uk if you have a story Was the CrowdStrike meltdown the worst IT failure in history? Probably, but nobody really cares about its level of notoriety. What they care about is their flight leaving on time, or their hospital appointment going ahead, or being able to log in to online banking. For a good few hours on 19 July 2024, none of those things was a given for millions of people around the world. The incident reports have been written, the lawsuits filed and in-depth articles about why it happened written (see the columns by Jon Honeyball and Davey Winder this month, p110 and p118). But will the lessons of the CrowdStrike failure be learned to minimise the possibility of a similar incident ever occurring again?…

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