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6 Insights Every CIO Should Take Away From The Crowdstrike Debacle

CIO, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

Blamestorming for fun and profit: The debris has mostly cleared from the CrowdStrike outage. But we still haven't recognized some of the IT impacts that matter most.

In early 2000, following IT's unprecedentedly effective response to the Y2K situation, the world botched its after-action review. Consumed by the need to have someone to blame, influencers from around the world proclaimed it was a hoax perpetrated by IT to inflate technology budgets and its perceived importance.

Happy to have a scapegoat, the world ignorantly sneered and then moved on to the next pseudo-culprit.

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