What did CrowdStrike teach us about software?   

Worldwide outages related to CrowdStrike once again showed the importance of interconnected software and the role of experienced technical support. This edition of the Software Mind newsletter explores factors connected to such incidents, including code quality, AI data, and shares security experts' views about the CrowdStrike incident.    

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ONE LAST THING:

As former hacker turned security expert Kevin Mitnick once said: "The weakest link in the security chain is the human element." Software and security start with people, and the human factor will always play the most crucial part in it, especially when something goes wrong.     

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