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Lessons on resilience as tech outage creates global disruption

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Julie DiMauro

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A faulty code resulted in one of the most widespread tech outages in recent years for companies using Windows.

In what is being acknowledged as the largest IT outage in history, a defective software update from tech company CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor caused Windows computer systems to crash across the globe last week, leading to massive disruptions of critical functions across multiple industries.

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