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Learning lessons from outages

"When incidents occur, the most important thing is fixing, learning and applying that knowledge institutionally. Finger-pointing and ceremonial sacrifices are not a mature response. Bias towards concrete action and banish politics"

bank of england certificate expired RTGS outage

Network configuration, CA and SWIFT issues, and certificate expiration blamed for a series of RTGS outages the past year.

ServiceNow borkage shows cert management remains an Achilles Heel

Customers howl after "ServiceNow identified an expired TLS cross-chain certificate affecting MID Server and instance-to-instance connectivity for ServiceNow customers"

AWS outage saw “cell management” system get flustered by big shards

The system "incorrectly determined that the healthy hosts were unhealthy and began redistributing shards..."

CrowdStrike RCA leaves a lacuna – firm rebuts vulnerability claims

“What a bunch of absolute corporate yap for basic issues"

Microsoft teams are rushing to fix the issue (Image: Unsplash)

New details of global mega-outage revealed, with Microsoft blaming disastrous "usage spike" on an implementation error in its own response to a cyberattack.

Crowdstrike promises RCA as C++ null pointer claim contested

"We are committed to identifying any foundational or workflow improvements" says EDR firm.

crowdstrike driver blamed for outage as aws, azure affected

AWS EC2 Windows instances also borked with Crowdstrike's manual mitigation not working. Guidance available but...

Crowdstrike CEO apologises  after content update "defect" caused global blue screen of death outage

"I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history," celebrity cybersecurity specialist announces

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