Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable
Germany's Federal Office for Information Security says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products.
The findings come from a report examining the experiences of 311 affected organizations in Germany, published today. Of those affected in one way or another, most said they first heard aboutThe report also revealed that half of the 311 surveyed orgs had to halt operations – 48 percent experienced temporary downtime. Ten hours, on average.
"There will never be a 100 percent protection against IT security incidents in the future. Nevertheless, we aim to get as close to 100 percent as possible," "It is important to give users the greatest possible control over update processes. Furthermore, the survey results also show that well-practiced IT emergency concepts must be an important component of any crisis preparedness."
Regardless, with the number of urgent patch warnings we and the infosec community dish out every week, it's probably a net positive, even if it's slightly misguided.
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