When monoculture leads to monofailure.
On July 19th, a routine update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused widespread computer failures, affecting 8.5 million systems worldwide. The reliance on a single operating system, Microsoft Windows, and a single threat checker, CrowdStrike, for critical commercial IT systems makes global ou...
| Publicado en: | Prospect no. 331; pp. 30 - 32 |
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Oct2024
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