Ian Cairns
IT OUTAGE
Ian Cairns
Sales Director TalkTalk Business
“ The widespread-chaos of the recent global IT outage shone a light on our world-wide dependence on digital applications . Taking learnings from the incident is paramount to reduce the likelihood of future disruptions on a much larger scale .
“ The outage also highlighted our worldwide vulnerability to larger threats . Whilst the CrowdStrike outage was the result of an unintended error rather than a malicious attack , it acted as a stark demonstration of why our intricately connected world needs to mitigate against such risks .
“ Our reliance on the cloud makes learning from the recent outage more pertinent than ever . Remote data storage has many benefits , allowing employees and customers alike to access important business data from all over the world . But this also means that a fault or disruption which interrupts this access can have a significant impact on operations .
“ The value of investing in fast , reliable and secure network solutions which work to protect access to business critical data can ’ t be ignored . Investing in solutions like Security Service Edge ( SSE ), for instance , can provide businesses with key data-access services like identity verification , security policy enforcement , compliance , and threat protection .
“ For organisations that hold important client , employee , or customer data on a cloud-based system investing in constant vigilance to protect cloud data should be a non-negotiable .” technologymagazine . com 81