Following the tech outage that hit Microsoft systems a little over a week ago causing massive and far-reaching disruptions across global corporate firms, Information Technology specialists are exploring fallback options that businesses can adopt as a shield against future incidents.
Those who spoke to the Business Daily acknowledged that even though an outage of this nature does not pose a critical risk to companies' network systems in terms of data loss and security breach, denial of service and the attendant backlogs due to delays in processing transactions poses reputational damage and financial loss risks.
