The failed CrowdStrike update last week caused worldwide havoc. Havoc for hundreds of thousands of customers, for those who rely on their services, and for CrowdStrike itself, which saw its stock plummet as a result of the biggest IT outage of all time.
There have been arguments on social media over the technical causes of the issue, and the company's very survival has been the subject of much online conjecture. However, CrowdStrike's competito...
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