What transpired this past summer on July 19 clearly was unexpected and unfathomable. Perhaps the Associated Press categorized this aptly with the keen weekend headline, “Technology’s grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines.”
Many acknowledge that traditional cybersecurity measures are designed to help you defend and prevent illegal and unauthorized hacking and intrusions from bad guys. In short, they are designed to prevent – not cause – computers to crash. Unfortunately, when a “trusted business partner” in the cybersecurity arena (like, for example, CrowdStrike) suffers a problem that negatively impacts programming from one of the world’s largest companies (Microsoft), seriously impeding all sorts of communication, commerce and care on a global scale, you might wonder whether you now must worry about and protect yourselves against authorized vendors, too.