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Lessons learned from CrowdStrike

Posted on July 29, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 21.31 • 2024-07-29

ON SECURITY

By Susan Bradley

It’s been over a week since the technology meltdown that impacted airlines, some banks, and even my sister’s Starbucks order through Uber Eats on Friday morning.

Despite the carnage, only a very small segment of computer systems was impacted. In the Official Microsoft Blog, the post Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage pointed out that less than one percent of all Windows machines were affected.

So why was this so impactful? More important, what lessons have we learned from this event? Is there anything we can do better next time?

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This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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