In light of today’s significant IT outage linked to CrowdStrike, it raises an important question: Should we rely on a single provider across our entire IT estate? Is it time to consider using different providers for production servers and user machines to mitigate risks and ensure greater resilience? The recent issues have highlighted potential vulnerabilities in depending on one solution. What lessons are we going to take away from this to reduce the risk of it happening again? What are your thoughts on diversifying IT providers to enhance security and reliability? #ITsecurity #Resilience #ITstrategy #CyberSecurity #TechTalk #crowdstike
Phil this is hugely interesting. For example, companies ‘doubling down’ to get all their infra into one particular cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) are exposing themselves to vendor lockin on the one hand. On the other, if you go with a multi-cloud architecture and approach, you have massively increased complexity, and higher design and operate costs. Fundamentally, I don’t think last week will change much for people, other than they’ll implement better update ring strategies, something I’ve harked on about for a while. Good post.
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3moIf you have 2 providers then in theory you double your chance of issues, although they will only have half the impact. Would also mean 2 lots of testing so more things likely to slip through and much higher cost / turnaround time. Not sure if that makes sense but it does in my head.