MOSCOW : Russian officials boasted on Friday that Moscow was spared the impact of the global IT systems outage because of its increased self-sufficiency after years of Western sanctions, though some experts said Russian systems could still be vulnerable.
Passengers wait at the Benito Juarez International Airport due to a worldwide tech outage that caused flight delays, in Mexico City, Mexico July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Luis Cortes
CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity company whose widely used"Falcon Sensor" software caused Microsoft Windows to crash, had no known customers in Russia. The Russian market is dominated by local cybersecurity firms such as Kaspersky Labs. The Kremlin, along with companies from state nuclear giant Rosatom, which operates all of Russia's nuclear plants, to major lenders and airlines, reported no glitches amid the outage that affected international companies across the globe.
Russia's second-largest lender, VTB, announced plans to increase the share of domestically developed software to 95 per cent by the end of this year, up from 85 per cent currently. The bank said it invested 50 billion roubles this year alone in phasing out foreign software.
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