Companies and governments that use Microsoft computer systems are continuing to recover from last Friday’s worldwide crash caused by a faulty update. U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, sits on the Senate Armed Services committee, which has been monitoring and discussing the outage.
“We’ve seen hacks with the State Department from foreign adversaries,” he told Missourinet. “It doesn’t appear as though that’s what this is, but it does highlight the vulnerabilities we have when we have a single vendor system that dominates these cybersecurity protection protocols and systems.”
Schmitt suggested that allowing more vendors to compete for IT contracts would help lessen the impact of another security update failure or a cyber-attack.
“So that’s what we’ve called for, more competition,” he said. “We shouldn’t be locked in – it happens to be Microsoft – we shouldn’t be locked in to one vendor’s approach to this, because you see the vulnerabilities that can happen. And so, we’re advocating for a more robust and layered approach to this.”
Meanwhile, Sky News reports that CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that provided the faulty update, is now blaming the outage on a “code fault” that slipped through its safety procedures.
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