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Opinion: What can we learn from the CrowdStrike outage?

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Businesses exposed to technology and concentration risk tied to large vendors and ubiquitous systems is a sign of the times, says Alex Viall.

We are operating in challenging times – inflation, political division, war, climate, contagion (COVID) to name but a few.

Technology development is a positive and is advancing, in many cases exponentially. It can help to solve many of the key problems mentioned above, but our growing dependency on it can create