Microsoft service disruption highlights need for cyber-informed engineering

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 14 (UNI) The widespread disruption of Microsoft services across several countries on November 12 and 13 has underscored the need to strengthen the resilience of global digital infrastructure through an engineering-led approach to cybersecurity. Services including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Copilot reportedly experienced interruptions, with preliminary assessments pointing to internal infrastructure and configuration-related issues rather than a cyberattack. Server overload, traffic redistribution and cascading technical failures were among the factors reportedly complicating the restoration of services. The incident highlights how a major disruption to digital infrastructure can occur even without malicious intervention, exposing the vulnerabilities of…