KGB Chairman Charkov’s question to inorganic chemist Valery Legasov in HBO’s “Chernobyl” miniseries makes a good epitaph for the hundreds of software development, modernization, and operational ...

Regarding the recent massive software failure caused by an upgrade from CrowdStrike, I think Congress should launch an investigation, led by a team of software engineers, to take a hard look at the ...

The incident highlights the profound reliance on IT infrastructure and underscores the urgent need for robust system resilience and contingency planning. The unprecedented global IT outage on the ...

Talking to Robert N. Charette can be pretty depressing. Charette, who has been writing about software failures for this magazine for the past 20 years, is a renowned risk analyst and systems expert ...

We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a lesson that went into overdrive during the CrowdStrike software debacle that created the “largest IT outage ...

Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows ...

The field of software reliability has become increasingly vital as software systems underpin many aspects of modern life. Software reliability growth models (SRGMs) offer a quantitative means of ...

Modern organisations are built on complex digital ecosystems, where a single point of software failure can paralyse entire operations overnight. Under King V, boards are explicitly responsible for ...

Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software ...

Philip Beyer, founder/president of Ebiz Products LLC and founder of Beyer Printing Inc. in Nashville Tenn., is a chronic entrepreneur, business systems analyst and consultant. Author of "System ...