Mishi Choudhary, founder of SFLC.in, spoke with Business Standard regarding the recent technology outage, which was triggered by a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and affected 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices.
While highlighting the importance of open source systems, she said “What we do need is mandatory business continuity plans for all companies and vendors to be written into contracts. Such that they are not just paper tigers but actually work. Two, insurance coverage for such outages. Three, move away from reliance on one vendor like Microsoft to run all of the systems and move to open source.”
Talking about the impact of this outrage in India, Mishi also mentioned the legal frameworks such as the IT Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, under which one can take action for any malicious cyber act.
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Microsoft global tech outage: When all systems in the world go down
