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from the vendor applied immediately to the production environment and without verification? After all, the situation with incorrectly working software or updates is not new, and such an obvious truth in the form of testing could have prevented the problem from becoming widespread," Vladimir Zdorovilo, Director of Information Technology at Unicon, was surprised.

According to Kirill Timofeev, there is no way to quickly resolve the problems caused by the failure, since companies will have to manually restore tens of thousands of different devices.

"Considering the long saudi arabia whatsapp resourceprocess of installing Windows and system applications for it (the process can take two to three hours), it will take a huge number of man-hours to restore all the systems that have crashed. Thus, it will not be possible to quickly solve the problem," added Vadim Plesskiy.


"CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that offers cloud-based endpoint protection solutions, as well as cyber intelligence and incident response services," said Sergey Lipov. "It provides clients with tools to monitor and protect systems from cyberattacks using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies."

Vladimir Zdorovilo recalled that CrowdStrike "became famous" for its fight against "Russian hacker-spies."

According to Alexander Liskin, head of the threat research department at Kaspersky Lab, the number of affected companies could be in the hundreds, and a failure of such scale is happening for the first time in world history.

However, Roman Karpov noted that problems caused by bugs or vulnerabilities in software happen all the time. He compared the Windows outage to the 2017 hacker attack, when the WannaCry ransomware infected computers around the world by exploiting a vulnerability in Windows known as EternalBlue. This resulted in the infection of more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, including critical infrastructure facilities such as hospitals, banks and government agencies.

Sergey Kravtsov, a member of the board of directors of NTC IT Rosa LLC (Rutek), compared what happened to the mass infection of computers with the Petya virus in 2017. At that time, Sberbank, Rosneft, and other companies in Russia and the world suffered from the actions of attackers.

"Since then, many have drawn conclusions and, thanks to the import substitution program, have begun to switch to domestic OS. Being hostage to Western vendors is a serious economic risk," noted Sergey Kravtsov.

Kirill Timofeev noted that no one in the IT industry is immune from such an outcome. Everything depends on how well updates are tested and software compatibility is checked before releases.

"The course towards import substitution helped us to get around this situation, but with the crazy pace of development of domestic software, the probability of something like this is far from zero," added Kirill Timofeev.

Import substitution helped

A representative of the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media said that there were no reports of system failures at Russian airports (airlines and airports are the most visible of the affected companies).

"The situation with Microsoft once again demonstrates the importance of import substitution of foreign software - primarily at critical information infrastructure facilities," noted a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development.

"The Windows failure had virtually no impact on Russian companies, since this CrowdStrike product is not very widespread on the Russian market. Its niche is occupied by domestic solutions - from Kaspersky Lab or Dr. WEB," concluded Kirill Timofeev.