Waters Wrap: After CrowdStrike crisis, will anyone learn?
Several bank and hedge fund sources tell Anthony that while there’s plenty to be learned from the CrowdStrike bug, some will more than likely forget those lessons in a few weeks’ time.
In the intelligence community, there’s a prevailing thought that goes something like this: the public never hears about your successes, only your failures. Well, that’s also a strong sentiment felt by many who work in IT. A thousand unnoticed software patches and upgrades? Yeah, that’s your job. One major outage? Fire everyone.
But late nights and angry calls and emails are all part of the job.
Now, I would assume that any subscriber of WatersTechnology is aware of the global outage that affected
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