Forbes October 11, 2024
Chris Bowen

By Chris Bowen, CISO & Founder at ClearDATA. Chris leads ClearDATA’s privacy, security, and compliance strategies.

When the CrowdStrike outage first started to show itself in the early hours of that hazy July morning, it was hard to believe that this wasn’t a hack or cyberattack. I was driving in my car that morning and looked up to see a digital billboard glitch into the “blue screen of death” before my eyes. Flights were grounded, travel was delayed, and nearly every Windows machine in the world was unusable. It was total mayhem.

Clearly, this was an outage of major proportions, as millions of Windows systems worldwide essentially cratered. Caused by a faulty misconfiguration, we saw firsthand how the very digital...

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