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The conference marks the first significant step by Microsoft to
address the issues that affected nearly 8.5 million Windows
devices on July 19, disrupting operations across industries
ranging from major airlines to banks and healthcare.
The event will be held at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond,
Washington, and will include invited government representatives.
The July outage raised concerns that many organizations are not
well prepared to implement contingency plans when a single point
of failure such as an IT system, or a piece of software within
it, goes down. Analysts have said the outage also exposed risks
of dependence on a single vendor providing a one-stop shop for
security solutions.
Delta Air Lines has said it was pursuing legal claims against
CrowdStrike and Microsoft, after the outage caused mass flight
cancellations and cost the carrier at least $500 million.
(Reporting by Chris Sanders; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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