Issue - meetings

Notice of items to be raised under this heading must be given in writing to the Deputy Director Democratic Services or their representative before the meeting in accordance with Standing Order 60.

Notice of items to be raised under this heading must be given in writing to the Deputy Director Democratic Services or their representative before the meeting in accordance with Standing Order 60.

The Chair invited Minesh Patel to provide a brief update on the global IT outage that had affected many users of Crowd Strike on 19 July 2024.  Members noted that Brent Council was a customer of Crowd Strike, which was a cyber security product and had been impacted by the outage.  Once picked up, an emergency response team was put together to immediately respond who utilised backups available prior to the update installation.  By 10:30am on the morning of the outage all of Brent’s Tier 0 applications were running and by 2pm all applications were running. Officers felt that Brent plans and response had been effective and it was an overall successful recovery from a major event.

The Chair requested members to send any questions to Minesh Patel via email and for Minesh to pass the Committee’s thanks on to the team and officers involved.

Notice of items to be raised under this heading must be given in writing to the Deputy Director Democratic Services or their representative before the meeting in accordance with Standing Order 60.

None.