“This Will Happen Again” | Companies Slowly Recover After Global IT Tech Fail

Businesses and services worldwide are slowly bouncing back after a massive tech outage caused chaos globally, exposing the fragility of our interconnected economy. A bungled software update triggered the “unprecedented“ outage on Friday, grounding flights, disrupting financial firms, news outlets, hospitals, supermarkets, small businesses, and government offices. By Saturday, many services were back online, but George Kurtz, CEO of US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, whose faulty update on its Falcon Sensor affected Microsoft’s Windows system, warned that full recovery could take weeks. CrowdStrike has issued a fix, and Kurtz offered a “personal apology to every organisation, every group, and every person impacted“ by the widespread glitch. Peter Cardwell speaks with tech journalist, Chris Stokel-Walker. #news #technology #uk #microsoft #talk #talkradio