The state-owned company admitted that it uses CrowdStrike and faced operational problems, but clarified that its cybersecurity was not affected.
Ancap He said he faced operational problems due to having the platform CrowdStrike, of Microsoft, but warned that in no case did he have problems cybersecurity, amid the update failure that generated a global cyber blackout and it was felt in Uruguayan banks.
The state company thus ruled out the possibility of a cyber attack and, through a statement, highlighted that CrowdStrike helped to “strengthen the mechanisms of prevention, monitoring and incident response.”
“After learning of the failure in the systems of Windows Following the CrowdStrike platform update, Ancap experienced operational problems in some functions, but in no case were these cybersecurity incidents,” the Uruguayan firm warned in a statement.
In the letter, he highlighted the company owned by Microsoft as a “leader in cyber threat protection” and highlighted that Ancap “was one of the first Uruguayan companies to incorporate it, with excellent results that allowed strengthening the mechanisms for prevention, monitoring and response to cybersecurity incidents.”
The effects of the blackout in Uruguay
CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity flaw led to some issues in the banking services of the country, but without affecting the personal data of customers, as it is a computer failure and not an attack. In turn, in the airports There were no problems locally, as there were at a global level.
“System crashes due to software It must be one of the first big ones, at least as far as I can remember. There have been falls due to infrastructure issues, but not due to anything specific related to software,” he told Radio Montecarlo. Leonardo Loureiro, Computer engineer and vice president of Training of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI), who admitted that “the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure is surprising and worrying.”
In parallel, the executive director of the Agency for Electronic Government and Information and Knowledge Society (Agesic), Hebert Paguas, He told Carve that in the country “there were no major consequences regarding this failure,” noting that the time zone had a positive impact on this happening.
Source: Ambito
