On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.
With John Chidgey.
About Causality (TV):
Introducing Causality TVCausality TV Episode 1: CrowdStrike (Video Release)Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident ReportChannel File 291 Incident Root Cause Analysis (PDF)News Releases and Articles:
CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdownCrowdStrike Senior Executive Adam Meyers faces CyberSecurity CommitteeCrowdStrike exec apologises before US Congress for software glitch behind July global outage | Reuters1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike OutageCrowdStrike2024 CrowdStrike incidentWhat is CrowdStrike?Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance HubAntivirus XML Configuration File for CrowdStrike Falcon SensorNamed PipesPipes (Interprocess Communications)Wildcard character
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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.