Without backup plans, global IT outages will happen again | Technology News

Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and until more contingencies are built into networks, and organisations put better back-up plans in place, it will happen again. Friday’s outage was caused by an update that U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike pushed to its clients early on Friday morning which conflicted with Microsoft’s Windows operating system, rendering devices around the world inoperable. CrowdStrike has one of the largest shares of the highly competitive cybersecurity market that provides such tools, leading…

Twitter’s India policy chief Mahima Kaul to step down; Infection will happen in March

[ad_1] New Delhi: TwitterThe Director of Public Policy for India and South Asia has resigned to pursue other interests, the micro-blogging site confirmed in a statement. The company also advertised a position for Director of Public Policy – India last week. This comes as the San-Francisco-based firm is reacting to the issue of blocking and unblocking of certain tweeting handles by the Indian government. peasant protest, Sources said the executive – who continues to lead talks with the government – Mahima Kaul’s step down is not related to the recent…