24-07-26 Crowdstrike

I came across a great article recently in reference to the lessons companies should take away from the recent large scale IT outage affecting windows machines. Salient takeaways for businesses were as follows:

The importance of diversifying critical IT Systems, so as not to be vulnerable to an outage like this disrupting the entirety of business operations.

Developing, maintaining, and continually updating your organization’s incident response plans, so that business can be continued and/or resumed as quickly as possible in the aftermath of an IT incident.

Employee training in respect of the prevention of and response to cybersecurity incidents, and implementing controls and safeguards over the entirety of your business supply chain with respect to their IT infrastructure and exposure to cybersecurity threats. A lack of resilience in your supply chain may mean that an incident like the outage on 19/07/2024 may seriously hamper business operations even if it does not directly affect the IT infrastructure of your business.

Implementing strong controls, procedures, and incident response planning can mitigate or even largely avoid the kinds of damages and holdups seen over the past few days. For more information about protecting your business contact SSTC here: https://lnkd.in/eswwc3c6

From Outage to Attack: Lessons from CrowdStrike and SolarWinds