The outage, which affected businesses and services around the world, was due to a software update issued to Microsoft Windows
The former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre said “the worst” of the global IT outage is over but warned that countries would “have to learn to cope” with future flaws.
Prof Ciaran Martin told Sky News:
The worst of this is over because the nature of the crisis was such that it went very badly wrong, very quickly. It was spotted quite quickly, and essentially, it was turned off.”
Until governments and the industry get together and work out how to design out some of these flaws, I’m afraid we are likely to see more of these again.
Within countries like the UK and elsewhere in Europe, you can try and build up that national resilience to cope with this. But ultimately, a lot of this is going to be determined in the US.
We’re at the start of one of the busiest periods of travel, with some schools finishing for the summer yesterday and many more next week.
Many people will be jetting off abroad – looking to escape the UK’s unseasonable weather of late.