Microsoft's Innovation Surge: Disrupting Tech Norms And Shaping The Future
Europe
Technology
A major tech disruption arose which negatively hampered operations in the global arena. The tech failure was attributed to the outage of Microsoft Cloud. The systems affected operations in banks, supermarkets, and other major global institutions. Most notable are the major airlines which cancelled and delayed several flights for departure. Railway transport was also hampered in Britain as well as media outlets such as Sky News. Microsoft confirmed that the outage was due to a software update by CrowdStrike which is a cybersecurity company. This affected normalcy in running the Microsoft 365 apps. The US experienced downtimes of the 911 security emergency services. Delta Airlines was also among the many airlines that were disrupted by the outage. However, countries such as China and Russia remained unaffected due to the outage. The sanctions against Russia by the West and the US seemed to have worked for and not against Russia's Economic prowess. Russia focused on local firms to provide tech services and terminated its reliance on the West’s technology. The Russian government has incorporated more of Kaspersky Labs in the provision of cybersecurity to its operations. The case was the same for China’s Mainland where operations in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing were unaffected. The efforts by China to develop its systems internally without any external influence seem to have borne fruit as evidenced by the outage of the Microsoft cloud which hampered operations in the global system, yet operations remained in place in Mainland China. The outage implies the need for governments worldwide to develop safeguards and systems developed internally to avoid such disruptions reoccurring in the future. It also raises questions on how companies are prepared to handle cybersecurity threats. Imagine what a global cyber attack could do if such an outage could cause global disruption.
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