International. An update to the CrowdStrike cybersecurity platform, which serves all Microsoft systems, such as Azure and 365, caused a global digital outage in all companies that use Microsoft systems. Among the most affected sectors are airports, transport, banking, stock exchanges, telecommunications and television channels.
CrowdStrike reported that for the solution to this problem it is required to delete a file that contains the most recent update of its platform, because it is incompatible with Windows. This must be done manually by each customer, so the company estimates that the total solution to this problem will take days.
With this explanation, the company ruled out that it has been affected by a cyberattack or a security flaw.
The impact on the media, and all industries in general, is due to the fact that the update generated the interruption of the service of Microsoft Azure, a cloud-based platform composed of more than 200 products and services for multiple sectors.
The chaos generated by this collapse is of great dimensions, if you take into account that 95% of the companies on the Fortune 500 list, the list of the 500 largest companies in the United States, use Microsoft Azure.
The failure in Microsoft's systems began to be detected on the night of Thursday, July 18, mainly in the United States and quickly spread to different countries around the world, mainly in Europe. In the face of this global collapse, it has been highlighted that China has not been affected due to companies in the country stopped using Microsoft and migrated to Oracle systems and their own developments.
