The top cybersecurity stories this year includes how Gen AI is impacting insurance companies as they face more cyber threats.

The advent of the largest IT outage in history caused the technology of numerous industries to topple like dominoes as they lost the use of their computers and other critical tools. Airplanes were grounded, passengers were stranded, courts were closed, hospitals performed only necessary surgeries and even some news organizations had to improvise to stay on the air

The impetus behind the collapse was a software update that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike released for its Falcon platform to various Windows systems. The update triggered an error, crashing the Microsoft Windows systems and affecting an estimated 8.5 million devices. However, it did not affect Linux or MacOS systems.