Rehearsal Intelligence: Using Digital Twins for Crisis Readiness

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images In July 2024, the cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike released a defective content configuration update. In the ensuing 78 minutes, before a patch was deployed, IT systems worldwide crashed. Microsoft estimated that 8.5 million Windows devices were affected. As blue screens of death cascaded across the globe, airlines grounded fleets,…