Data Resilience In The Wake Of A Global Outage
Veeam News, Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Delivering Data Resilience in the Wake of the CrowdStrike Outage: The Critical Role of Comprehensive Backup and Recovery
In the ever-evolving landscape of modern IT, the unexpected can quickly become the new normal. On July 19, 2024, a widespread IT outage across on-premises and public cloud resources caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update impacted Microsoft Windows installations worldwide, causing them to crash. CrowdStrike is a popular product for cyber protection that receives constant automatic updates. It is important to highlight that in this case an outage that affected many industries from hospitals and 911 services to airlines was not caused by a cyberattack or malicious activity. This event serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in our increasingly digital infrastructure and underscores the paramount importance of robust and reliable backup and recovery solutions to ensuring business resilience.