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THREAT INTEL: Global Digital Armageddon – CrowdStrike failure exposes fragility of market dominance

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THREAT INTEL: Enforced Global Digital Armageddon – CrowdStrike failure exposes fragility of widespread market dominance

By Andy Jenkinson – Guest Contributor |  Group CEO Cybersec Innovation Partners
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Enforced Global Digital Armageddon.

On Friday, July 19, 2024, the Western Digital World experienced a catastrophic failure, exposing the perilous reliance on single points of failure and the fragility of CrowdStrike’s widespread market dominance and Wintel systems.

Whilst the West was plunged into near systemic chaos, Russia, China, and Mac users emerged virtually unscathed—a stark indication of the geopolitical and technological implications at play. Pause and think about these facts for a moment and the bigger picture.

For decades, the Western world has been force-fed on a diet of Microsoft, the Military-Industrial Complex, Proxy Wars, and U.S. Technology Dominance. All the while providing Governments with surveillance and back doors. Critically, due to lack of knowledge and competency particularly in DNS, doing so whilst maintaining INSECURE servers.

This monopoly, fuelled by collusion, corruption, and manipulation, has left Western citizens with little choice but to pay for suboptimal and insecure technology. The result? A digital landscape this is as fragile as it is ubiquitous. A Landscape where the very systems designed to protect us paradoxically are often our greatest vulnerability – our Digital Achilles Heel.

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The impact of flawed software upgrade is not merely a financial setback; it is a symbol of the inherent, systemic risks of centralized technological reliance and the outcome of arrogance and complacency. This situation is the digital equivalent of Oxycontin on a global scale—promised security and resilience, yet delivering, and ensuring exposure and insecurity.

This situation enforced and ensured a large percentage of the Western Wintel users were merely sitting ducks, helpless and waiting for the next inevitable cyber onslaught. Which no doubt, are in flight right now.

As the West grapples with the fallout, it is evident that our digital infrastructure is a house of cards.In a world where monopolistic tech giants control the narrative and the market, we are coerced into an Enforced Digital Armageddon. It is time to wake up and recognize that true security and resilience cannot be achieved through compromised, insecure systems dictated by monopolistic agendas.

The cost of continued arrogance and complacency is too high, and the stakes are our digital, and human survival.

Cybersec Innovation Partners
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National Cyber Security Centre
FBI Cyber Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The White House
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
United States Department of Defense
ABC News
CNN
CNBC
Fox News Media
BBC News
ITV News
InternetSecurity
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About Andy Jenkinson

Group CEO CIP. Fellow Cyber Theory Institute. Director Fintech & Cyber Security Alliance (FITCA) working with Governments. Recognised Expert in Internet Asset & DNS Vulnerabilities.

Andy Jenkinson is a senior and seasoned innovative Executive with over 30 years’ experience as a hands-on lateral thinking CEO, coach, and leader. A ‘big deal’ business accelerator, and inspirational, lateral thinker, Andy has crafted, created, and been responsible for delivering 100’s £ millions of projects within the Cyber, Technical, Risk and Compliance markets for some of the world’s largest, leading organisations. Andy has a demonstrable track record of largescale technical delivery and management within many sectors including the Professional, Managed, and Financial Services.

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