I think it was "predicted" by Sunburst, the Solarwinds hack.
I don't think centrally distributed anti-virus software is the only way to maintain reliability. Instead, I'd say companies to centralize anything like administration since it's cost effective and because they actually aren't concerned about global outage like this.
JM Keynes said "A ‘sound’ banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him." and the same goes for corporate IT.
I don't think centrally distributed anti-virus software is the only way to maintain reliability. Instead, I'd say companies to centralize anything like administration since it's cost effective and because they actually aren't concerned about global outage like this.
JM Keynes said "A ‘sound’ banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him." and the same goes for corporate IT.