• NextGovFCW's David DiMolfetta on the global network outage

  • Aug 5 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
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NextGovFCW's David DiMolfetta on the global network outage

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  • Much of the world shut down on July 19 after cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update that essentially rendered 8.5 million Microsoft Windows computers useless.

    David DiMolfetta, who covers cybersecurity at our partner publication NextGovFCW, led the bulk of GovExec's coverage of the aftermath even though the outage was not technically a cyber situation. But all that happened does bring up questions about network vulnerabilities and resilience.

    In this episode, David tells our Ross Wilkers all about how federal agencies are working to recover and learn from an event that was truly historic in scale.

    Blue screens of death were everywhere on July 19 and the entire situation was weird. As David explains, the scale of the outage is leading agencies to re-examine how they approach cyber and keeping tech assets healthy.

    Summer-only sessions helped blunt CrowdStrike outage impact on US schools

    Crowdstrike IT outage linked to update using new threat detection system

    How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers

    Biden briefed on CrowdStrike IT outage as multiple federal systems impacted
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