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CrowdStrike crisis I get that CrowdStrike should test its releases better. What few people seem to be asking is how companies such as airline services and Sky News, where Windows machines working is mission-critical, managed to update all their machines without doing their own testing first. How much did this cost in operational and reputational damage? How much would it cost to install the patch on a couple of machines and test it for a couple of hours? It’s as interesting to see the companies that weren’t caught out as the ones that were. I work for banks. The ones I’ve been at always test operating system patches. It should not be routine to install any external software on business-critical systems. One of the industries affected were the airports. These are charged with preventing…

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