CrowdStrike Global Outage: Unpacking the Fallout and Future

By Matthew Rosenquist | Cybersecurity Tomorrow | 30 Jul 2024

The Cybersecurity Vault - episode #36, with guest Ira Winkler

Today we are going to talk about the massive global IT outage, effecting over 8 million devices, caused by the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike. Although not a cyberattack, this incident is bringing to light potential issues for cybersecurity solutions and the potential fragility of the global computing ecosystem!

We discuss:

- What they did wrong

- What they did right

- What they need to do going forward

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Matthew Rosenquist

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