As the modern world tries to return to normal after the electronic world blackout on Friday, the discussion has already begun for the next day… About what should be done so that modern human civilization does not relive the collapse of air Transportbanking and stock market transactions and the closure of thousands of government services and businesses around the world.
Experts in their field cyber security and analysts in the technology industry converge in the opinion that we should expect, as a first immediate step, that the relevant authorities (legislative, regulatory, etc.) around the world will require that new security safeguards be developed, especially in the area of automatic updates.
O CrowdStrikeO company responsible for the blackout, is trying to do some kind of crisis management, claiming that the famous update that caused the worldwide collapse of computers and systems was not a software update that (theoretically) goes through a series of checks before being released, but rather a content update and these updates do not have such quality controls. But this is fine print for those who will be called upon to make decisions and will not make such technical separations, but will ask for the development of a new firewall against such possible technical failures.
Analysts report that companies involved in the operation and protection of interconnected electronic systems, such as those in the aviation industry or the financial sector, but also, more generally, the entire electronic world that is connected in some way (e.g. via the computing cloud) between them, will be required from now on to ensure that their systems are, firstly, resilient, secondly, that in the event of a problem there will be a rapid solution and that their contingency plans include foreseeing all the necessary testing steps and involving all customers and their suppliers.
Governance
One of the issues that arose with the CrowdStrike update outage incident is that there was no common automated process to deal with the issue that arose, as many organizations and businesses were either not fully connected to the relevant service provider or decided to use other tools due to security issues that impeded the recovery effort when it was initiated after the issue occurred.
At the same time, a parallel discussion began about what is defined in two words as “cyberspace governance,” an indicative example of what we had in this case with a cybersecurity company actually being the… relay for a large part of the global electronic world and just the relay that went down caused a global electronic blackout.
One of the parameters of the situation that is taking shape according to Forbes magazine is that claims for compensation from CrowdStrike have already begun to be raised through law firms, which according to analysts will lead to an adjustment in the policy of insurers involved in the technology industry and the tactics that insurance companies will follow will play a central role in defining the framework of laws and rules that will be shaped from now on in the functioning of the electronic world.
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