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It's crowdstrike: https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e... > 7/18/24 10:20PT - Hello everyone - We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions. Investigating cause. TA will be published shortly. Pinned thread. > SCOPE: EU-1, US-1, US-2 and US-GOV-1 > Edit 10:36PT - TA posted: https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-W... > Edit 11:2…
So 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…
Crowdstrike is very expensive.
Mostly because I lived through Y2K and every fear about Y2K just materialised but because of Crowdstrike instead.
I can't imagine the amount of wasted work this will create, not only the lost of operations across many industries but recovery will be absolute hell with Bitlocker. How many corporate users have access to their encryption keys? And when stored centrally, how many of the servers have Crowdstrike running and just got stuck in a boot loop now?
I don't envy the next days/weeks for Windows IT admins of the world...
CrowdStrike have finally posted publicly on it: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-windows-sensor...
- Not apologetic
- An 'issue' in a 'single' release
I bet they were originally planning on starting with a '[reported by a] small number of customers' too.