By Salt 106.5 Network Sunday 18 Aug 2024FaithReading Time: 2 minutes

Don’t worry. It is going to happen again.

Key points:

• “I don’t think we need more fear, necessarily, but I do think we should expect [more outages],” Adrian Tam told Hope Mornings.
• “It does point to the deeper question of not just what do you put your hope in, but what do you put your ultimate hope in,”
• Adrian asks “is there something in your life that you can place hope in and know that it will never fail or disappoint you?”

On July 18, 2024, the world stopped.

Everything from airports to media companies and local businesses were ground to a halt by a software update released by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

Notably causing shutdowns with Microsoft operating systems, the flawed update revealed what we already know.

We are enormously reliant upon interconnected digital systems.

Our personal and professional lives are increasingly built upon online networks.

So, do we need to live in fear of more outages?

“I don’t think we need more fear, necessarily, but I do think we should expect [more outages],” Adrian said.

“I don’t think we need more fear, necessarily, but I do think we should expect [more outages],” Adrian Tam told Hope Mornings.

Adrian Tam is FaithTech’s Regional Manager (Oceania).

FaithTech is a global network of Christians in the technology space, seeking to glorify God through innovation and implementation.

“The reality is these outages happen all the time.”

Reportedly, the scale of the CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage was the largest ever of its kind.

But Adrian said we should acknowledge smaller outages are common.

“It does point to the deeper question of not just what do you put your hope in, but what do you put your ultimate hope in.”

Instead of living in fear of crashes or cyberterrorism, Adrian recommended we learn a different lesson.

“It does point to the deeper question of not just what do you put your hope in, but what do you put your ultimate hope in,” Adrian said.

“We can place some level of hope in lots of things around us.

“Material things, digital things, virtual things.

“But is there something in your life that you can place hope in and know that it will never fail or disappoint you?”

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