CrowdStrike Outage Shows Business Continuity Still A Must
Search Disaster Recovery, Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Disaster recovery has centered on cyberattacks the past few years, but the CrowdStrike outage illustrates why companies can't forget about traditional business continuity.
A faulty update issued by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike brought numerous companies to their knees July 19, exposing critical vulnerabilities in disaster recovery plans.
IT analysts said the interconnected nature of SaaS, cloud services and modern applications contributed to the massive IT outage, which triggered a looping blue screen of death on devices running the Windows OS with CrowdStrike's threat detection software.
This connectivity in software and hardware is needed for organizations to operate and meet consumer demands, but they must also consider traditional business continuity plans and recovery, analysts said.