IT outage ‘likely’ to occur again unless government and industry work together

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A global IT outage is “likely” to occur again unless governments and industry work together to “design out” technological flaws, a leading cyber expert has said. Professor Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, said “the worst” of the global IT outage was over but countries would “have to learn to cope” with future flaws. It was spotted quite quickly and, essentially, it was turned off.” Prof Martin added: “Until governments and the industry get together and work out how to design out some of these flaws, I’m afraid we are likely to see more of these again. “So unless and until the structure of the way we do tech changes, we’re going to have to learn to cope with these things, rather than eliminate them.” Until governments and the industry get together and work out how to design out some of these flaws, I’m afraid we are likely to see more of these again Professor Ciaran Martin Computer scientist Sir Nigel Shadbolt said people should draw similar lessons from the IT outage as they did from the pandemic.