Yes, i’m a crowdstrike customer. I had that pop up on my feeds around 2am while I was high on my couch and went in and took care of the ~3 non-user systems that were affected in my org. I implemented a fix very quickly because it really was just one bad file.
Anything virtualized I was able to fix hands off. Also anything with an idrac or similar. It really wasn’t much work for us.
Blame windows and how it handles things honestly. Also blame the companies that had major outages with endpoints in places they couldn’t reach, and did not react quickly enough despite being massive companies with billions in revenue because IT is just a cost center to them. This stuff was popping up everywhere when it started in terms of any communications channel I look at, and a fix was available in under an hour.
Every software company is going to have at least one bad update every now and then. Microsoft has major outages all the time. AWS has major outages all the time. Don’t even get me started on the amount of man hours that goes into managing updates for windows based systems because it’s all just a fucking shit show.
A few months before the windows incident they did the same thing to their Linux customers, so definitely can’t blame that part on Windows. I think the real takeaway here is that bigger and more centralized is generally not better.
Yes, i’m a crowdstrike customer. I had that pop up on my feeds around 2am while I was high on my couch and went in and took care of the ~3 non-user systems that were affected in my org. I implemented a fix very quickly because it really was just one bad file.
Anything virtualized I was able to fix hands off. Also anything with an idrac or similar. It really wasn’t much work for us.
Blame windows and how it handles things honestly. Also blame the companies that had major outages with endpoints in places they couldn’t reach, and did not react quickly enough despite being massive companies with billions in revenue because IT is just a cost center to them. This stuff was popping up everywhere when it started in terms of any communications channel I look at, and a fix was available in under an hour.
Every software company is going to have at least one bad update every now and then. Microsoft has major outages all the time. AWS has major outages all the time. Don’t even get me started on the amount of man hours that goes into managing updates for windows based systems because it’s all just a fucking shit show.
A few months before the windows incident they did the same thing to their Linux customers, so definitely can’t blame that part on Windows. I think the real takeaway here is that bigger and more centralized is generally not better.