At this year's Black Hat conference, U.S. and European cybersecurity leaders are sharing what they've learned from the widespread global IT outage stemming from a botched CrowdStrike update, SC Media reports.
The incident has highlighted the importance of secure-by-design software development, design, testing and deployment, as well as dependence on critical software and cyber resilience, as evidenced by the recovery challenges faced by other organizations impacted by the outage, said Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre CEO Felicity Oswald shared similar sentiments regarding cyber resiliency.
"Resiliency is always going to be a buzzword in cybersecurity, and that's my job. But it's also the job of every public sector, organization, private sector organization, big and small organization in our civil society," Oswald added.
Oswald and European Union Agency for Cybersecurity Chief Operating Officer Hans de Vries both emphasized that cyber resiliency is crucial in defending election systems from cybersecurity threats.
