NASSCOM president’s humourous take on CrowdStrike outage: “Look who set your house on fire”

NASSCOM president Rajesh Nambiar has compared the July CrowdStrike outage to a security team accidentally setting your house on fire. The incident triggered the infamous “blue screen of death” and caused millions of Windows systems to crash globally. This outage disrupted critical industries like airlines, hospitals, and banks. During a panel discussion at an event organised by the India Global Forum in the UAE, Nambiar highlighted the need for a balance between speed and quality in IT deployments to prevent such widespread disruptions in the coming days.