Andrew Peck, a cyber resilience PhD researcher at Loughborough University who, prior to joining the institute, had a career delivering IT solutions to big industry, healthcare and government, and Professor Oli Buckley, an expert in cyber security, have reacted to the IT outage news. Cyber resilience asks, ‘how do we survive something going wrong?’, whereas cyber security asks ‘how do we stop something bad happening?’. The outage appears to be caused by a poorly written update from a cyber security vendor. "Ironically, Falcon's role is to protect devices from cyber threats by monitoring for intrusions or suspicious activity and then it should block it. "This is a complex bit of software that can update the way a system behaves to try and keep them safe from attack."

Source: The Times July 19, 2024 12:20 UTC