Tech expert weighs in on Global Internet Outage which impacted local services [Video]

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR)– During the early morning on Friday, July 19, an issue with Microsoft IT sparked an internet outage that impacted a majority of the world.

“Every single thing that we add to a system- also becomes a potential problem,” said Wade Baker, a Collegiate Associate Professor of Integrated Security at Virginia Tech. “And in this case, keeping that one piece of software up to date took out millions and millions of computers around the world- and organizations can’t do business- can’t process sales and lots of other things because of it- so it’s a big mess.”

These effects were felt locally as several services and businesses across Central and Southwest Virginia ran into disruptions as the internet seemingly went out.

Health care system Centra had to reschedule elective surgeries and patient appointments. Although there were some bumps Centra faced in the wake of the outage, the healthcare system says it is …