CrowdStrike to overhaul software updates after causing global IT outage
The US cyber security business blamed for last week’s global IT outage has pledged to overhaul how it issues critical software updates.
In a “post-incident review” of the IT blackout, CrowdStrike said it would reform how it tests and sends out future upgrades.
Survival could also be on the agenda.
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Survival could also be on the agenda.
The company's survival, or that of the entire western world?
I was really glad to see that this was a good old-fashioned cock-up rather than the Chinese or somesuch. If they could take down huge swathes of our IT, the middle of an American coup would be a good time to do it.
By the time it takes my desk top to warm up and log on, the damage done had been rectified, and I never knew what happened!
Wonder what happened to mobile phones or iPads?
Sam - the survival of the company, but who knows? Yes it was a good old-fashioned cock-up, but I've seem one claim by a retired Microsoft guy that it was a fundamental Windows weakness which the EU pressured Microsoft to leave unsecured. No doubt more will emerge.
Scrobs - my understanding is that it was Windows only and probably only corporates using Crowdstrike.
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