Exploring the Preventive Contribution of Data Localisation Against Information Technology Outages: The CrowdStrike Case
Exploring the Preventive Contribution of Data Localisation Against Information Technology Outages: The CrowdStrike Case

Summary/Abstract: The severe impacts of the CrowdStrike outage on the world economy and national ‎critical services, e.g., banking, healthcare, and airports, invoked the urgent need to ‎decrease governmental dependence on foreign tech companies to store and manage ‎national data. An effective alternative to this approach is data localisation. The latter ‎includes the physical placement of data infrastructure within the state’s territory or ‎imposing ultimate national control over data stored in a server located abroad, ‎along with relevant managing software. The research points out the prominence of ‎data localisation to protect national data, and the functionality of services ‎depending on this data, against technical failures that cause outages. In this ‎endeavour, the research reviews the concepts of territoriality and localisation of ‎cyberspace, along with shedding light on the CrowdStrike outage ‎and explaining ‎its reasons and consequences. Then, it introduces a justification for the validity of ‎data localisation for preventing outages' negative impacts and protecting national ‎data.

• Details
• Contents