Many businesses are likely to take days or even weeks to fully recover from Friday’s unprecedented computing outage, IT experts have warned, after a faulty software update from the company they trusted to secure their systems caused massive global disruption.
CrowdStrike, one of the world’s largest security vendors, blamed an update to its Falcon software for a bug that broke countless Windows PCs and servers, grounding planes, postponing hospital appointments and taking broadcasters off air around the world.
The outages were all the more shocking given CrowdStrike’s strong reputation as many companies’ first line of defence against cyber attacks, analysts said.