Chaos from a Cyber Outage

This chapter examines a global technical outage triggered by a misconfigured update from CrowdStrike, causing crashes and disruptions in critical systems across multiple sectors. The discussion highlights the complexities of kernel access in cybersecurity and the severe implications of software bugs on corporate and personal devices. Experts weigh in on the incident's impact, financial repercussions, and the need for robust security measures in an increasingly interconnected world.