The Crowdstrike Outage- What happened and what next? artwork
Leading IT - APAC Insights

The Crowdstrike Outage- What happened and what next?

  • E60
  • 42:44
  • July 28th 2024

In this episode, Josh and Tom welcome back David Stevenson, the Cyber Security Lead at Empyrean, to discuss the recent major cybersecurity incident triggered by a CrowdStrike software update which resulted in widespread system outages around the world.

So what can we learn from this, and how to ensure business continuity? Fortunately there are alternatives to Cloudstrike available. However there is no escaping the importance of understanding vendor procedures, establishing strong incident response plans, and taking into account multi-vendor approaches for managing risks.

Leading IT - APAC Insights

The podcast for CTO's, CIO's and people leading IT.

This podcast is hosted by 2 leaders in the Australian Technology sector - Tom Leyden CIO of residential property firm LongView, and Josh Rubens Managing Director at IT Consultancy Empyrean.

They take an informative and conversational look at topical IT matters on a monthly basis. They discuss key topics such as; IT strategy and digitisation, AI, Cloud computing, IT  security, IT infrastructure, Vendors, and people leadership. 

Each episode reviews industry news and takes a deeper look at IT vendor strategies and innovation with special guests and experts on various topics.