Fortune: What CIOs and CTOs plan to do differently after CrowdStrike’s massive tech outage

NetSPI CTO, Tom Parker, recently shared his take on last week’s CrowdStrike outage. He told Fortune that this incident, more than anything, showcased significant industry-wide gaps in how organizations react and respond to major events. He also spoke about how affected customers should proceed and prepare themselves for something of this magnitude in the future. Read the preview below or view it online.

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Tom Parker, CTO of security company NetSPI, says the outage exposed significant industrywide “gaps in our ability to react and respond” to CrowdStrike-like threats. But he remains a fan of CrowdStrike and the security industry as a whole. “There’s definitely a tendency to have a knee-jerk reaction,” says Parker. 

CrowdStrike customers should perform a deep analysis of what happened inside their companies during the crisis, he adds, and perform tabletop scenarios, or simulated IT emergencies that help train employees and expose weaknesses.

You can read the article at https://fortune.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-outage-what-cios-ctos-will-do-differently/