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The Outrage or Lack Thereof: Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage

Fusion Risk Management

It’s been interesting to see the accepting attitude of customers that a disruption as large scale as the CrowdStrike outage would occur; ire and blame seems to have only been aimed at individual firms when those organisations have failed to revert to manual or alternative processes and recover within similar time frames to their peers.

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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. If air flights only ran from 9-5, then airlines could do some evening work to catch up. Can airlines ever provide enough information?

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong. This led to a delay of almost 2,000 Southwest flights.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Non Disruptive Upgrades: The Pure Storage Ship of Theseus

Pure Storage

This eliminates the complicated and time-consuming process of planning and executing multiple workload outages while data is moved and then cut over to the new array. This will present a system stability problem in an unexpected component outage because critical data will be lost.

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8.5 Million Crashes Later: Why CrowdStrike’s Blunder Is Your Risk Management Wake-Up Call

LogisManager

This wasn’t just a blip; it was the largest outage in IT history. While a fix was eventually released , the necessity for manual repairs prolonged the outages, exacerbating the crisis. Nonexistent : The manual fixes and lingering outages showed just how unprepared everyone was. million Microsoft Windows systems to crash.