Technical Holidays .. The World begins to recover and warnings of future risks

The services provided in various fields, from airlines, gradually returned to the healthcare, shipping and financial matters, to work on Friday, after a global digital malfunction of computer systems for hours, which revealed the gaps arising from the world’s transformation in mutual technology to the Corona virus. After the start of resolving holidays, businesses handle the accumulation of deferred and canceled flights, as well as medical appointments and orders that have not achieved their destination and other problems, it may take days to solve it, and companies also have questions about how to avoid the interruption of services in the future because of the technology that is supposed to protect their systems. A software update of the Crowdstrike International Security Company, one of the largest businesses in the sector, has caused system problems that have led to the failure of flights and media bodies to cut broadcasts and to prevent users from having access to services such as healthcare or banking. Since the outbreak of the Corona virus in 2020, governments and companies have increased on a group of mutual technology companies, which declare the cause of the world’s reversal upside down due to a problem in one program. The holidays have the company ‘Kraoud Strike’, a $ 83 billion and not known company, but it has more than 20,000 subscribers around the world, including Amazon and Microsoft. George Kirtz, CEO of the company, said on the “X” platform that an imbalance was monitored “to update individual content for Windows host servers” on Microsoft’s customers. A global technical malfunction in crippling activities in many sectors caused Friday as it led to a flight, airline and the interruption of a number of TV stations. He continued: “Many customers start the system, open the system and return to work.” The holidays have also raised the fear that many organizations are not well prepared to implement emergency plans when a system of information technology is disrupted, or that a program can cause the entire system to stop. But experts believe that this break will occur again until more emergency plans are combined in networks, and organizations use better backup instruments. The resumption of work at Saudi and Kuwait airports, “Holding Airports” business, which oversees the operation of 27 airports in Saudi Arabia, announced the return of operations for their normal situation at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, King Abdulaziz International Airport in the second airport. The company emphasized in a statement that the necessity of “travelers communicate with the air controllers before they go to the airports to learn more about their flights and developments in their dates, and to see the regulations of the rights of passengers approved by the general authority of civil aviation.” In the same context, King Khalid International Airport pointed out ‘the return of operations to the normal situation to the global technical holidays that influenced a number of air controllers in the Internal Hall 5 and the International Hall 3. Saudi Flys Airlines said on Friday that it began to resume its operations after being affected by a global technical defect, causing some of its flights to be delayed, delayed his website on the Internet and its application to the phone. The Kuwaiti Civil Aviation Administration also announced on Friday the return of all technical systems and all airlines that work to normal in Kuwait International Airport after a few flights at the airport were affected by global technical holidays. The Kuwaiti News Agency, “Kuna”, cited the spokesman for the General Administration of Civil Aviation, Abdullah Al -Rajhi, saying that the global technical defect contributed to the direct influence on operating systems and on some flights at Kuwait Airport. The work stopped in airline and communications businesses, and the indicators of stock exchanges in various countries were disrupted by the technical defect. The National Cyber ​​Security Authority in Saudi Arabia has announced its side that the influence on the national authorities in the kingdom has been ‘limited’. The commission said it was “setting up preconceived measures to monitor and following cyber threats and risks, as well as responding to any cyber accidents in the event of their appearance.” The Saudi Organization for Data and Artificial Intelligence “Sayya” also announced that its technical systems and government systems are functioning without interruption, and that it was not affected by the technical holidays that hit the most parties in the countries of the world on Friday. The commission spokesman, Engineer Majid Al -hehri, said in a statement: “From the first moment of the rise of technical holidays, it was by its national technical teams on the work of its internal systems and government regulations offered by IT and were not subjected to any malfunction.” Future risks, as Roland Abi NAJM, an information security adviser and digital transformation, are considered to have been considered technical holidays, among its reasons, as the monopoly of international enterprises, technology systems and to the Arab World News Agency: “There are already risks of cyber security that can be considered; About the possibility of breakthroughs that can cause this defect to be repeated, Abu Najm said that “the danger is always present; if it is in cyber security, there is nothing safe with 100%, and consequently human error and technical errors are received at every moment.” For his side, telecommunications expert Abdel -Ghani Kataya explained that this is not the first time such a defect has occurred, and that it is also not excluded that similar incidents have been repeated in the future. He told the agency: “It happened before … If we remember, a few years ago there was a sudden interruption of Facebook services around the world. At the time, they said they were making an update, and a defect occurred in this update that led to the suspension of the servers.” He added: “It shows us how dangerous is that many depend on one operating program or on one system of cyber security. If this system is exposed to a defect, this imbalance is distributed in all countries.”