Microsoft outage: Govt in touch with authorities, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on Friday issued an advisory to Indian users on the Microsoft Windows outage that affected services globally.

The apex cybersecurity agency under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in its advisory attributed the outage to Microsoft’s CrowdStrike Agent Falcon Sensor update and suggested a few steps to resolve the issue.

Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw in a post on X said, “MeitY is in touch with Microsoft and its associates regarding the global outage. The reason for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue. CERT is issuing a technical advisory. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) network is not affected.”