When cloud computing service Fastly went down for a few hours earlier this week, it felt as though the internet had broken.
Many major news sites and critical websites, such as The New York Times, the White House, and the British government's key public-facing hub, Gov.uk, were completely inaccessible.
And it was all down to one customer that had changed their settings and triggered a software bug that caused the outage.
This is just one event of many that has highlighted the vulnerabilities that exist within company technology stacks.
More often than not, malicious actors are looking to take advantage of those vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity attacks have soared this year with increased sophistication and a focus on critical infrastructure.
In May, criminals were able to shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a key pipeline for transporting oil, using a ransomware attack until the company paid a $4.4 million sum. And this month, JBS, the world's largest meat packing company, saw its operations paralyzed for several days f ..
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