Big Tech Consolidation Amplified the CrowdStrike Outage
On Friday, an update to a cybersecurity program took down Microsoft systems across the globe. Microsoft has resisted efforts to regulate a root cause of this chaos: the concentration of digital infrastructure in the hands of a few tech giants.
By Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton , Katya Schwenk , Helen Santoro
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-tech-consolidation-amplified-the-crowdstrike-outage/
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