On Friday, July 19th the United States experienced the largest service disruption in US history. Reports are that a “software upgrade” caused outages in the airline and financial industries among others. Not a cyberattack? Not sure if we will ever really know. Regardless, this event is a clear example of what could happen on a much larger scale and with a higher severity level.
Cyberattacks and our obvious dependency on technology is a clear reason to continue to prepare and be able to exist absent from modern technology and corresponding services.
I think that the recent cyber incident was on purpose whether it was
instigated by individuals or a nation state to test the response and probe
for weakness in the system.
Our enemies see cyber attacks as a way to destroy a country or an
institution without firing a shot.
Some say it was because CrowdStrike released some faulty software or something like that.
I think it was a beta test to gauge damage and reaction to a shut down, “it smells like Washington” as Marvin says.