Global IT outage 'likely' to happen again, expert says as warning issued
manchestereveningnews.co.ukExperts have described the chaos of the worldwide IT outage as a 'big wake-up call' and warned that it is 'likely' to happen again unless governments and tech firms work together.
Professor Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said 'the worst' of the outage was over, but countries would 'have to learn to cope' with future flaws.
The founding chief executive of the NCSC told Sky News: “The worst of this is over because the nature of the crisis was such that it went very badly wrong, very quickly.
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.
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