How Did Russia & China Evade CrowdStrike Falcon Disaster That Downed Systems Globally? | IT Outage

Russia’s tech infrastructure emerged unscathed by the global IT outage that disrupted aviation, banking and other businesses world over. Russian officials said on July 19 that the country’s airlines and banks did not appear to have been impacted by the outage.
The Kremlin said it was spared largely due to measures taken by Moscow to counter Western sanctions imposed on Russia.
Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks and broadcasters, suffered serious failures on July 19. The meltdown was triggered by a recent update of the US-based CrowdStrike antivirus platform. Problems were reported in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Spain, the US.
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0:00 INTRODUCTION
2:02 “CURRENT INCIDENT TEST OF HOW WELL WE HAVE PREPARED”
3:54 RUSSIA’S FOCUS ON TECH SELF-SUFFICIENCY
5:35 CHINA ALSO SPARED IMPACT OF GLOBAL IT OUTAGE?

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[gelinrefira]

This is why tech and data sovereignty are so important. If you depend on another country for your most crucial software and hardware, you will always be held hostage by them. This time was an accident because CrowdStrike didn't do their due diligence, next time it will be sanctions.

[stephenchurchill]

The west tried to derisk from Chinese eleectronics, but the largest risk seems not from China.

[mr.g]

Most comments here do not address the issue but are rather sarcastic. Both Russia and China are doing the right thing in producing and using domestic software. Western software usually has a backdoor, which can be used against other countries.

[chaosland]

Every country should use their own software and protection. Stop using the same software produced by the US or other nations.

[nelsonsim]

Russia and China have learned never to rely on Western technology and software. A great example is the development of the Glonass and BeiDou satellite navigation systems. If the Americans were to deny them access to GPS, as happened to China in 1996, it would have significant military implications. This experience has driven both nations to develop their own independent systems to ensure their technological autonomy and security.

[goldeneggduck]

Russia and China are smart! Their are worthy of their success!

[prastagus]

if it was Chinese software fault, what would these nations do? Crowd Strike need to pay for damages, let's see if they do or not.

[NekoLilium]

Answer is simple, they didn't use CrowdStrike. They both have their own Cyber Defense industry.

[TR_Emeritus]

No Windows mean no outage, smart move by Russia. China also has its own OS, no not much impact also.

[GWC-ht]

As a Chinese, I can tell you that China is not a digital colony.

[darkmatter]

There are only three countries in the world that have their own reliable and sustainable "Google": the US, China and Russia.
They are the only three countries that have their native IT sector that is their own, and is independent from others.

[karlowalker]

Using Microsoft is like asking a thief to look after your valuables. If you wish to give them ever last detail of your life, ( Which ever one of us in the West does ) your families and every other person ever connected to you, then go ahead and us it. Sad but true

[sufianseth]

This is further confirmation as to how eastern tech has come a long way

[willengel]

it's quite simple really. China has the foresight to setup its own sovereign internet, and so is Russia. the world's biggest internet companies are between US and China, 6 for US and 4 or 5 for China. zero for EU.

China will gradually migrate all its system to Huawei's Hong Meng OS. Hong Meng OS is all about IoTs. undoubtedly, a small loss for Google Android.

[subbuc]

"Grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems but world's problems are not Europe's problem" SJ Jai shankar Ji

[nsalleh]

India has so many IT experts, Why can't India develop its own system?

[kentmusgrove]

No political or corporate leader would have CrowdStrike on their computer. This software provides backdoor access to any computer using it.

[yehuo]

is this a wake up call for every country?!

[StraussBR]

I remember when windows 10 was released Kaspersky identified a windows feature to log keystrokes

[РусланЗаурбеков-зе]

I'm owner of Windows 7. The first thing I did, when Microsoft left Russia: disabled ALL automatic system updates.

Quite happy since then.