The CrowdStrike outage should make us rethink the resiliency of our tech infrastructure. It probably won’t

The tech solutions we rely on are often less polished than they appear. We just learned that lesson—once again—the hard way.

Very late Thursday night, the world got a firsthand look at how vulnerable our computer infrastructure is. A glitch in an update to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor tool pushed out by engineers caused a catastrophic error that resulted in potentially millions of Windows computers worldwide crashing into a blue screen of death.