A lot of you asked the line of code I changed to optimize, here it is."
It was my very first day on the job as a new system admin and I was very eager and excited. Let's say I actually made a small update to a line of code, optimised an update slightly a little bit and maybe I shouldn't have. I got fired so I was called in,
Hello @elonmusk do you have a job for me? Please RT so M. Elon Musk can see it."
We expect most services to have fully resumed by the end of the week.”
Simply put, software like that is designed to keep employers’ sticky fingers from removing it,
Is your computer affected by Crowdstrike? We can help you fix it for $200”
Its timing couldn’t have been worse on a Friday, and in particular, impacting on a Friday afternoon,
Across the board there’s been a wide impact, that’s cost a lot of businesses time, money, lost sales … it’s very hard to put a dollar figure on that,
If you have an automobile, and you take that automobile to the fuel station and you get fuel that is not quality fuel or corrupted fuel, your automobile is not going to work properly,
CrowdStrike lives at a layer within Microsoft Windows" to provide "the utmost of security. They live at a layer that truly does impact the entirety of the Windows infrastructure if they get it incorrect."
While the percentage was small,
It does emphasise that we live in a world of dependency and vulnerability and that disruption can and will happen and IT is at the core of our day to day operations, our businesses, our economies, everything about our lives. So this will happen and will continue to happen,
Our risk registers, our understanding of what can go wrong or what might go wrong, doesn't change because of an incident like this. The reality is that risk exists every day,
Happily, where there were problems, these were kept small and short-lived and many areas of care were unaffected" in Austria
We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,
Our teams will be working actively through the weekend as we continue to resolve remaining issues in preparation for the start of the work week,
We recognise the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals
What Crowdstrike was doing was rolling out its updates to everyone at once. That is not the best idea. Send it to one group and test it. There are levels of quality control it should go through,
It's just that due to what CrowdStrike does, the fallout here is catastrophic,
You need the right checks and balances in companies. It could have been a single person that decided to push this update, or somebody picked the wrong file to execute on,