Global digital infrastructure behind literally every modern service requiring data backup or authentification for example, is far more fragile than you’d think…
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It makes sense for companies and organizations to outsource key internet services, but with those services in the hands of a few corporations, failures have a wide impact.
Affected businesses will naturally now be asking who is legally responsible, and whether there’ll be any compensation. These are important questions, but legally, the answers will be complex.
Software like Crowdstrike Falcon can access core computer systems and, essentially, spy on everything. We live with these tradeoffs – but perhaps we don’t have to.
We don’t yet know the full cost and scale of the damage, or how long it will take supply chains to fully recover.
The CrowdStrike outage reveals the fragility of interconnected systems – a digital monoculture makes us all vulnerable.
An update to Falcon software by the cyber security company CrowdStrike has caused an unprecedented global IT outage. So, what is it exactly?
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New England
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Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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Assistant professor in information systems, IÉSEG School of Management