Why Asia dodged the worst of the CrowdStrike meltdown
ABCThe CrowdStrike outage brought much of the world to a standstill — giving us a taste of the Y2K bug that never was. Johanna Weaver, founding director of the Tech Policy Design Centre at the Australian National University, said Australia "felt the brunt" of the CrowdStrike outage because the software update happened during the day, unlike in the US where it happened overnight and there were fewer computers online there. "The discrepancy in impact can be attributed to several factors, including the varying market penetration of CrowdStrike's services and differing levels of dependency on specific cybersecurity providers across regions," said Liu Yang, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "Since Chinese enterprises mainly use domestic antivirus software and they were less affected by this incident, this has enhanced the trust of domestic users in domestic network security software," The Global Times tabloid declared. Another Chinese firm, QAX, said CrowdStrike's product was high quality but the outage showed "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility".
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