IT Leaders Fear A Repeat Of The Crowdstrike Outage In 2025
ITPro, Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Many organizations are woefully unprepared for a serious IT outage
Almost nine-in-ten (88%) executives predict a major IT outage on the scale of the CrowdStrike incident within the next 12 months, according to research from PagerDuty.
A majority in the UK. (91%), US (89%), Australia (88%), and Japan (78%) believe an outage is a foregone conclusion and not a matter of 'if' but 'when.'
The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos when it crashed millions of Windows devices globally, and organizations are now concerned they wouldn't be able to handle a similar event.
86% said they've been prioritizing security over resilience or disruption readiness.