India, July 23 -- Around 8.5 million PCs. This number, confirmed by Microsoft and later by CrowdStrike, illustrates the scale of the global outage of Windows PC managed by enterprises' IT departments last Friday due to a faulty update by third-party cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Work came to a standstill across industries, including aviation, healthcare and fintech. It soon became painfully clear that organisational IT processes worldwide, are woefully unprepared for such an eventuality.

Is there a way for organisations to be better prepared? "The disruption has underscored vulnerabilities in our IT infrastructure, and an over-reliance on certain providers," said Piyush Goel, founder and CEO of Beyond Key software development compan...