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CrowdStrike failure: What you need to know

A flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an endless reboot cycle that IT organizations are still working to remediate.

1 Aug 2024 14 mins
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Technology Industry
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3 questions to ask before adopting 5G for IoT

While many CIOs are tempted by 5G networking for IoT applications, some due diligence is strongly advised before jumping on the bandwagon.

31 Jul 2024 9 mins
Application Performance Management Broadband CIO
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Counting the cost of CrowdStrike: the bug that bit billions

Cyber insurance coverage is set to cover only a fraction of the losses, leaving affected businesses to grapple with substantial uncovered expenses.

26 Jul 2024 4 mins
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Endpoint Protection
analysis

Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

Despite the challenges and uncertainties that surround committing to digital transformation, the consensus in Germany about cloud readiness and willingness is undeniable, and can serve as a model for enterprises around the world.

26 Jul 2024 8 mins
Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Cloud Security
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Early IT takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

A cloud-agnostic security approach decouples security from the underlying cloud infrastructure, ensuring that security policies and capabilities are universally applicable.

28 Apr 2025 4 mins
Security
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Early IT takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

As the IT world recovers from the massive outage triggered by CrowdStrike’s Falcon update, CISOs and CIOs would be wise to keep a running ledger of lessons learned. Here are some initial considerations.

26 Jul 2024 2 mins
Business Continuity IT Strategy Incident Response
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CIOs must reassess cloud concentration risk post-CrowdStrike

The global CrowdStrike meltdown shows what you risk when IT operations depend on a single point of failure. Reconsider your organization’s cloud concentration risk tolerance and define a strategy to match.

25 Jul 2024 6 mins
Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy Multicloud
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CrowdStrike blames testing shortcomings for Windows meltdown

Customers will be given more control over when and where content is downloaded to reduce the risk of similar incidents in future.

24 Jul 2024 1 min
Endpoint Protection Incident Response Security
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Be honest: Are your company values and AI aligned?

Regulators, experts, and AI vendors talk a lot about alignment: the degree to which an AI model conforms to values. But enterprises are still coming to terms with what or whose values should be prioritized.

24 Jul 2024 12 mins
CIO Generative AI IT Skills
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Oracle’s $115 million privacy settlement could change industry data collection methods

In addition to the payment, Oracle has agreed to stop tracking users in various ways. Privacy advocates applauded the settlement.

23 Jul 2024 4 mins
Data Privacy Legal Oracle
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5 IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about

From mounting technical debt to financial concerns in the cloud, IT leaders must recognize, survey, and develop plans to address several key operational risks that if left unchecked could debilitate their business.

23 Jul 2024 11 mins
IT Leadership IT Strategy Risk Management