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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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The CrowdStrike incident affected computers running Microsoft Windows across various sectors, including airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies, and railways. Enhanced due diligence, rigorous testing of updates, and phased rollouts are now critical.

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Competitive Advantage in a Commoditized Industry

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But industries with low threat of new entrants (high barriers to entry) might be things like airlines. Once you have done the due diligence of truly reflecting on these questions, examine your answers. With some good recipes, enough capital to set up a high cost to start up, and some elbow grease, you're in business.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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In a lawsuit the airline filed in October, Delta claimed the faulty update was pushed out in an unsafe manner and CrowdStrike should pay for the losses. Theres only so far you can go with due diligence. And they might sign and say yes, but you wont really know.

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