{"id":5591,"date":"2024-07-22T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/global-it-outage-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-governments-industry-and-individuals\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:02:19","slug":"global-it-outage-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-governments-industry-and-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/global-it-outage-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-governments-industry-and-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Global IT outage should be a wake-up call for governments, industry and individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mass global IT outage has exposed the vulnerability of modern daily life when technology fails.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chaos, which impacted businesses and services worldwide, from GP appointments and flights to news broadcasts and online payments, is thought to have been triggered by a security software update rather than any kind of deliberate cyber attack by a hostile state of malicious individuals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>However, given the scale of the disruption, this disaster demonstrates just how powerful cyber and software could be if used as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow live: Major services across the world affected by outage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is why any actual act of war by one state against another would always be expected to include a cyber dimension, with the ability to take the frontline into people&#8217;s homes, offices, or anywhere that there is a computer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Just imagine having to deal with being knocked offline and unable to receive communications, make payments, or travel as some kind of physical, real-world military strike was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian citizens have to endure Russian cyber attacks &#8211; a tactic that ramped up in the weeks before the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The fact Friday&#8217;s global disruption was not a malicious cyber hack will be slim comfort given the impact that even just a mistaken software glitch has had across continents.<\/p>\n<p>But, it should be yet a massive wake-up call for governments, industry and individuals about the need for greater resilience against the potential for computer codes to go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This would not only shore up economies against future mistakes but also build up defences to protect nations should the next major attack be a deliberate cyber assault.<\/p>\n<p>Al Lakhani, a cyber security expert, said in a statement: &#8220;This incident underscores the importance of businesses thoroughly researching and vetting their cybersecurity solutions before implementation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The lesson here is blindingly obvious: investing in cybersecurity is not just about acquiring the latest or most popular tools but ensuring those tools are reliable and resilient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass global IT outage has exposed the vulnerability of modern daily life when technology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}