“It’s going to continue to raise issues for systems or businesses wholly dependent on Microsoft – this issue of concentration risk,” Michael Daniel, former White House cybersecurity coordinator and current head of the Cyber Threat Alliance told AFP.
“How do you balance the benefits of having everybody on the same operating system with the concentration risk that poses?”
Callie Guenther, senior manager of cyber threat research at Critical Start, warned that the shift to big players amplifies the impact of any system failure or vulnerability.
One error, like CrowdStrike’s on Friday, threatens society’s smooth functioning worldwide, she said.
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