Nizich Discusses Outages Affecting CrowdStrike Customers

Newsday interviewed Michael Nizich, Ph.D., director of the ETIC and adjunct associate professor of computer science, amidst recent widespread computer outages tied to a software update by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Among other points, Nizich noted that it remains to be seen how long it will take to restore all impacted computers to normal working order, and who will pay for the damage. He explained that bugs like the one impacting CrowdStrike’s customers are likely to continue and occur more frequently as more systems turn to cloud-based computing that keeps data and applications stored remotely, but still relies on computer desktops with operating systems to access and run them. “With cloud-based systems, we’re seeing global outages like never before,” said Nizich.