Microsoft to host global summit after CrowdStrike-induced outage [Video]

Microsoft has announced that it will host a summit in September, in the wake of a global IT outage that occurred last month due to a faulty update from CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company. The outage, which affected nearly 8.5 million Windows devices, disrupted operations across various industries, including major airlines, banks, and healthcare.

The summit, scheduled for September 10, will be held at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The tech giant plans to invite government representatives to the gathering, as stated in a company blog post. The aim of the summit is to discuss and devise strategies to improve cybersecurity systems and resilience, learning from the recent outage and enhancing security practices.

The CrowdStrike-induced outage has raised concerns about the preparedness of many organizations to implement contingency plans when a single point of failure, such as an IT system or a piece of software within it, goes down. The incident …