Richard Forno

Richard Forno

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Dr. Richard Forno is a Principal Lecturer in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, where he directs the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program, serves as the Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, and is an Affiliate Scholar of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Prior to academia, his twenty-year career in operational cybersecurity includes helping build a formal cybersecurity program for the US House of Representatives

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - JULY 19: Long queues of passengers form at the check-in counters at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, amid a global IT disruption caused by a Microsoft outage and a Crowdstrike IT problem, on July 19, 2024 in Manila, Philippines. A significant global outage affecting Microsoft services, particularly Microsoft 365, has caused widespread disruptions across various sectors, including airlines, banks, and health systems. The outage was attributed to a glitch in CrowdStrike's "Falcon Sensor" software, which impacted Windows systems, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and operational chaos in multiple industries. Microsoft has reported that the underlying cause of the outage has been fixed, but residual effects continue to impact some users as the company works on full recovery. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

The CrowdStrike outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem

By Richard Forno published

The outage is emblematic of the way organizational networks, cloud computing services, and the Internet are interdependent — and the vulnerabilities this creates.

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