Lessons Learned One Year After The Crowdstrike Outage
InformationWeek, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
As the anniversary of the major CrowdStrike outage approaches, what have CIOs learned about cyber resilience?
On July 19, 2024, a CrowdStrike update triggered a global IT outage that struck hospitals, airlines, and even banks. As we arrive at the one-year anniversary of the incident, CIOs have the opportunity to reflect on their approach to cyber resilience.
While the CrowdStrike outage was remarkable for the scale of disruption, IT outages are a common occurrence. And as the IT ecosystem becomes more complex and interconnected, the possibility of another major incident like this is ever-present. A 2024 PagerDuty survey found that 88% of IT and business executives expected to see another major incident as large as last July's outage within the next year.