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CrowdStrike outage a chance for cyber insurance sector to ‘show its worth’

The global IT failure was the result of a hamfisted software update which shows that cyber risk is more than just 'a guy in a hoodie’, says Emergence CEO Troy Filipcevic.

By Aaron Woolner

August 6, 2024

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