A Faulty CrowdStrike Update Causes Major Outage
Following news of cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike’s faulty software update creating global disruptions, Principal Analyst Allie Mellen and VP, Principal Analyst Andras Cser comment on the outage.
Associated Press: How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world
The Wall Street Journal: “Why the Old Reboot Trick Won’t Work This Time”
Financial Times: “Companies around the world hit by Microsoft outage”
The Daily Mail: “How a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed computers around the world”
ZDNet: “Who needs ransomware when a faulty software update can shut down critical infrastructure?”
The Daily Mail: “CrowdStrike outage continues to wreak havoc around the globe – as the firm claims a ‘significant number’ of the 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the blackout are back online”
Yahoo! Finance: “Explainer: How CrowdStrike knocked the world offline”
CIO Dive: “CrowdStrike software update at the root of a massive global IT outage”
TechRepublic: “CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide”