Prof. Rao said that the recent outage is an example of what happens when caution is not exercised. A significant network outage occurring on July 19^th and linked to CrowdStrike crippled Microsoft-based services, causing widespread disruptions that are only now being slowly resolved. Ironically, the CrowdStrike technology, which is designed to provide security, has itself introduced a significant vulnerability into the system.

In an interview with me, Prof. Shrisha Rao talked in detail about the recent Microsoft Outage. Read my anchor report in the newspaper.

https://www.lokmattimes.com/technology/microsoft-windows-outage-a-wake-up-call-of-the-risks-our-globalized-society-faces-says-shrisha-rao-a475/