Jun 15, 2026 By: daviddefusco
By Dave DeFusco
Five students in the Katz School of Science and Health’s M.S. in Cybersecurity earned third place and scholarship prizes at the ISACA New York Metropolitan Chapter 2026 Cybersecurity Case Study Competition by tackling one of the most disruptive technology failures in recent history.
Competing under the team name “The Futurists,” Daniel Lodi, Joanna Chishakwe, Abraham Isyagi, Wetaka Rogers and Chabota Matongo were challenged to analyze the CrowdStrike global outage of July 19, 2024. The incident affected approximately 8.5 million Windows computers worldwide, disrupting airlines, hospitals, banks and other critical services while causing an estimated $5.4 billion in losses among Fortune 500 companies.
Rather than examining the event solely as a technical malfunction, the team focused on the leadership, decision-making and oversight failures that allowed a small software update to trigger a worldwide crisis.
“The recommendations changed our conclusions because we were looking at things from the governance perspective,” said Lodi, who served as team lead and assumed the role of CrowdStrike’s director of technical support. “In every organization, leadership and governance define how security supports business operations and objectives. If leadership does not support the cybersecurity initiatives presented by the technical team, any initiative will not work.”
Read the full article here: https://www.yu.edu/news/katz/isaca-cyber-competition-recognizes-students-crowdstrike-outage-analysis
