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Automatic updates should still have risk mitigation in place, and the outage didn't only affect small businesses with no cyber security capability. Outsourcing does not mean closing your eyes and letting the third party do whatever they want.
It shouldn't, but when the decisions are made by bean counters and not people with security knowledge things like this can easily (and frequently) happen.