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Special report: Crash course in chaos: How tech teams responded to the global CrowdStrike outage.

Six months later, what's next?

Six months ago, the global CrowdStrike outage cost Fortune 500 companies globally an astonishing $5.4 billion. The cybersecurity company distributed a faulty update to its security software, which affected Microsoft Windows devices worldwide and caused 8.5 million systems to crash.

Understanding what happened and the impact

The disruption spared no one, affecting industries ranging from airlines and retailers to manufacturers and government services, and incurring an estimated $5.4 billion in losses for Fortune 500 companies.
Now, six months on, it's well worth examining where we stand today, and what lessons businesses have learned and applied from this incident.

How are future risks being mitigated?

With our research, we help to answer this and other questions, and help you work better and plan for the future.
We surveyed 400 people with software development responsibilities in organisations with over $10m in revenue across the UK, US, and Germany. Our study uncovers precisely how the incident has impacted investment plans, third-party relationships, and company culture, and what businesses are doing to mitigate the chances of an event of this scale happening again.
Discover what they had to say, plus insights from our experts, in this free research report.
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Are organisations any closer to preventing an incident of this scale from happening again? Download this report to find out.