Australia's peak body for cyber security executives says the federal government should consider a review of cyber security and software systems in the wake of the outages.
Security experts say CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.Microsoft says "hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts" are working directly with customers to resolve the issues.
Security experts said a routine update of CrowdStrike's widely used cybersecurity software apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed. CrowdStrike released information to fix affected systems, but experts said getting them back online would take time as it required manually weeding out the flawed code.David Cullen, from the Australian peak body for cyber security executives CISO, said the federal government should consider a review of cyber security and software systems in the wake of the outages.
"Government and businesses have got to get smarter and better at being able to deal with these situations, that might mean having redundancy, that might mean ensuring you have got alternatives, it certainly might mean not having one organisation or one company with too much market share." Microsoft cybersecurity executive David Weston said "hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts" were working directly with customers to resolve the issues.
The air travel industry was recovering on Saturday from the outage that caused thousands of flights to be cancelled, leaving passengers stranded or grappling with hours of delays as airports and airlines were caught up in the IT outage.
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