The Crowdstrike outage showed that risk management is essential. Why are so many businesses reluctant to do it?

  • Written by: Michael J. Davern, Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

In the wake of the widespread chaos we saw on Friday, one old adage perhaps feels even truer now than when it was first coined in the 1960s:

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

As the world continues to assess the fallout of what has been called “the largest IT outage in history”, industry and government...

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