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4 Essential Cyber Hygiene Practices To Boost Your Organization's Digital Defenses

techradar, Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

Improving cyber hygiene to prevent catastrophic technology outages

Millions of computer systems going down at the same time; emergency services, travel, and financial systems disrupted; and global shipping halted. It's the type of technology catastrophe many envisioned would happen during Y2K, or some far-off dystopian future, yet the CrowdStrike outage happened in 2024 and the world was woefully unprepared. While the exact cause is still being investigated, the culprit seems to have been a bug in their software.

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