I want to bring in Josh Corman, a cybersecurity expert,
to talk about this a little bit more.
Josh, can you explain to us what Crowdstrike is exactly
and what they're designed to do?
Sure.
Cybersecurity products have existed for a long time.
Most of us knew antivirus.
This is one of the newer generations.
And in order to do their job to protect systems,
they usually have to have extraordinary privilege and access into
an operating system like Microsoft.
So with great power comes great responsibility to channel Stanley.
And if a mistake is made, it can have pretty
pronounced impact.
So that's what happened here.
It's contributing to the blue screen and protracted downtime.
And and we mentioned this with with, with Aaron just
a few moments ago, just how vulnerable systems can be.
What does this massive outage say about how dependent so
many businesses and users are on this single software system?
Yeah, I found it.
I am the cavalry.org almost 11 years ago, August 1st.
And the idea was our dependence on connected technology was
growing a lot faster than our ability to secure it,
specifically in areas affecting public safety, economic and national security.
We like to say where bits and bytes meet flesh
and blood.
So whether it's this accident or the cell phone outages
earlier this year or change healthcare affecting hospitals nationwide for
months, we are over dependent on undependable things exposing us
to accents and adversaries.
And we have got to get much more balanced in
how much trust we place in these systems.
Absolutely.
Cybersecurity expert Josh Korman, thank you so much for your
time and for your insights.
Appreciate it.