When you have an oligopoly, you have single point of failure.
Now, how is someone going to breakup Crowdstrike and Microsoft?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/19/tech/tech-outage-crowdstrike-software/index.htmlCrowdStrike is everywhere
Numerous Fortune 500 companies use CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software to detect and block hacking threats. Computers running Microsoft Windows — one of the most popular software programs in the world — crashed because of the faulty way a code update issued by CrowdStrike is interacting with Windows.
CrowdStrike, a multibillion-dollar firm, has expanded its footprint around the world in its more than decade of doing business. Many more businesses and governments are now protected from cyberthreats because of this, but the dominance of a handful of firms in the anti-virus and threat-detection marketplace creates its own risks, according to experts.
