Dave explains the Crowdstrike IT outage, focusing in on its role as a
kernel mode driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts
Here is are two comments
First Comment
"The company I work at got bought by a bigger one. They required us to
install Crowdstrike on all servers. We found a memory leak, that
Crowdstrike still hasn't fixed after 6 months so I have refused to
install it until then. I was on vacation when I saw all URGENT emails
from other divisions.
Thank you Crowdstrike for not fixing your memory leaks, it saved my
vacation. =P"
Second Comment
"While this is technically what crashed machines it isn't the worst part.
CS Falcon has a way to control the staging of updates across your
environment. businesses who don't want to go out of business have a N-1
or greater staging policy and only test systems get the latest updates
immediately. My work for example has a test group at N staging, a small
group of noncritical systems at N-1, and the rest of our computers at N-2.
This broken update IGNORED our staging policies and went to ALL machine
at the same time. CS informed us after our business was brought down
that this is by design and some updates bypass policies.
So in the end, CS caused untold millions of dollars in damages not just
because they pushed a bad update, but because they pushed an update that
ignored their customers' staging policies which would have prevented
this type of widespread damage. Unbelievable."
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Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: [email protected]
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