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What lessons should we take from the IT melt down

China: Illustration CrowdStrike Cause Microsoft Blue Screen of Death

Il crash di milioni di sistemi telematici ha messo in ginocchio diversi settori. Source: AAP / Michael Nigro / CFOTO/CFOTO/Sipa USA

A bug in an update at cyber security company Crowdstrike based in Austin, Texas caused system failures globally. In addition to SBS and ABC, large banks and many other companies, for example, were also affected. But how could an outage of this magnitude occur? And what options are there anyway to avoid such failures? Cyber security expert Professor Carsten Rudolph at Monash University provides answers.



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