This story comes from the Healthcare community, but the Crowdstrike outage affected critical infrastructure operations across the globe, including energy organizations.
This story provides further proof that holistic, effective Cyber Risk Management policies and practices are key to reliability and resilience. It's not just about "cybersecurity threats and protections", it's imperative that organizations look beyond the "status quo" cybersecurity thinking to the more holistic, modern and effective "Cyber Risk Management" thinking that considers cyber disruptions broadly, not just cybersecurity attacks from hackers, but any potential risk to cyber resilience that disrupts critical infrastructure operations, like this article showing how the Crowdstrike incident took down 45,000 computers at Mass General Hospital. This situation was clearly a "Cyber Risk Management" issue, not a cybersecurity issue.
Embrace the change from the status quo to "Cyber Risk Management" thinking, it could let you get a good night's sleep every night.