Do we have any estimates how many machines are affected?
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#382We are a major CS client, with 50k windows-based endpoints or so. All down. There exists a workaround but CS does not make it clear whether this means running without protection or not. (The workaround does get the windows boxes unstuck from the boot loop, but they do appear offline in the CS host management console - which of course may have many reasons).
I don't mean this to be rude or as an attack, but do you just auto update without validation?
This appears to be a clear fault from the companies where the buck stops - those who _use_ CS and should be validating patches from them and other vendors.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#383how can billion dollar company push update before testing?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#384So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…
"The metric becomes the measure", i.e. Goodhart's Law.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#385I'm just curious, don't they have something like "gradual rollout" to update their app? They just bulk-update simultaneously across entire agents? No way. Something is a bit off for me. But there are good lessons to learn for sure.
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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#386This is a sample of what Y2K would look like if not for the countermeasures.
Actually really scary to see/read the comments on. Like Die Hard's 'Fire Sail"
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#387So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…
> the risk of failing the compliance checkbox it satisfies is paramount.
i'm curios as to what compliance is there to be satisfied to necessitate such a hardcore measure?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#388So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…
Of course, disabling those auto updates will have you fail the external security audit and now your security team needs to fight with the rest of the leadership in the company explaining why you're generating needless delays, costs against the "state of the art in security industry" and why your security guys are smarter than the people who have the power to approve or deny your security certification.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#389This never would have happened if all these orgs used a blockchain.
/sarcasm
/but is it really?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#390I guess this article might need some updating soon:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/reports/total-economic...