The Crowdstrike outage showed the vulnerability of the cloud

Experts say the services companies like Crowdstrike supply are in the hands of too few providers that are themselves too interconnected.

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Companies continue to grapple with the massive CrowdStrike outage. It took down millions of computers running Microsoft Windows last Friday. Insurers now estimate that Fortune 500 companies hit with the outage face a staggering $5.4 billion in financial losses. NPR’s tech correspondent Dara Kerr reports that the meltdown shows just how vulnerable computer systems are. And a note – CrowdStrike and Microsoft are NPR funders, but we cover them like any other company.

DARA KERR, BYLINE: In pre-dawn

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