What caused the Microsoft outage and how can they prevent another one? | Global News Podcast

Microsoft says it is seeing sustained improvements in service availability after an outage saw users in more than 70 countries lose access to Outlook email and calendar services, Teams chat and CoPilot AI software. Microsoft says it has not found any evidence that malicious activity caused the problems.

In this video, we find out what may have caused the Microsoft outage, and how vulnerable we are to another one. We also ask a cybersecurity expert what lessons we can learn about digital resilience, and a mindfulness teacher tells us why disconnecting from email could be good for our mental health.

00:00 Introduction
1:17 What happened at Microsoft?
02:06 Are we vulnerable to another Microsoft outage?
03:05 How to be digitally resilient
05:07 Dealing with the stress of the Microsoft outage
08:05 Why disconnecting from email can be good for your mental health

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