A Monash expert is available to comment on reports of major IT outages across Australia.
Professor of Practice Nigel Phair, Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity, Faculty of Information Technology
Professor Phair is currently overseas in Stockholm but available for comment via WhatsApp on +61 408 437 056
- Impact of cybersecurity issues
- Governance of technology
- Intersection of technology, crime and society
The following can be attributed to Professor Phair:
“A major outage has occurred affecting a number of Australian and global organisations; it appears not to be malicious in nature, rather an error stemming from a network outage. The type of outage is unknown at this stage but it highlights the dependencies organisations have on the internet and related online technologies.
“It is looking like the outage is focused on the Microsoft operating system linked to the global cyber security company CrowdStrike.
“Organisations need to take an ‘all hazards’ approach to the availability of their IT networks and take appropriate risk management practises to ensure they can be resilient against any future incidents.”
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