A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses, airports, rail companies and banks in several countries. Cyber expert Joseph Jarnecki from RUSI said: "We should reflect on the fact that we are very dependent on these digital systems and as such, when they break, it can have significant impacts on us and our society."
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00:00So what we've seen today in this large-scale global IT disruption is a single company, as you say, a cybersecurity company called CrowdStrike,
00:08which has about 24,000 organizations, which are customers of it internationally, send out a faulty update to their services,
00:19which has led those devices to be unoperable because they're trying to talk to the Microsoft operating system that they work with,
00:26and they've been unable to do so.
00:28From this incident, we should reflect on the fact that we are incredibly dependent upon these digital systems,
00:34and as such, when they break, it can have significant impacts on us, on our society.