EPISODE · Oct 19, 2024 · 29 MIN
55: CrowdStrike
from Causality · host The Engineered Network
On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.With John Chidgey.About Causality (TV): Introducing Causality TV Causality TV Episode 1: CrowdStrike (Video Release) Formal Report: Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report Channel File 291 Incident Root Cause Analysis (PDF) News Releases and Articles: CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown CrowdStrike Senior Executive Adam Meyers faces CyberSecurity Committee CrowdStrike exec apologises before US Congress for software glitch behind July global outage | Reuters 1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike Outage General Information: CrowdStrike 2024 CrowdStrike incident What is CrowdStrike? Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance Hub Antivirus XML Configuration File for CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor Named Pipes Pipes (Interprocess Communications) Wildcard character Support Causality on PatreonEpisode Gold Producers: 'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.
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On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.
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