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E034: CrowdStrike / Windows Catastrophe – the largest IT outage in history
On Friday, July 19th, at 4:09AM UTC, a small update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a cascading series of failures in critical Windows systems around the world. And while the bad update was halted by 5:27AM, the damage was already done. Over 8.5 million Windows machines triggered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death and key pieces of global infrastructure were knocked offline.
In this emergency episode, we look at what happened, what the impact was, and discuss whether there are any solutions to prevent this from happening again. Spoiler: it's complicated!
Join the discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcceptanceCriteria/
And on the Discord: https://discord.gg/2Tyj8H9MFF
The post E034: CrowdStrike / Windows Catastrophe – the largest IT outage in history first appeared on Acceptance Criteria.
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By Acceptance CriteriaOn Friday, July 19th, at 4:09AM UTC, a small update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a cascading series of failures in critical Windows systems around the world. And while the bad update was halted by 5:27AM, the damage was already done. Over 8.5 million Windows machines triggered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death and key pieces of global infrastructure were knocked offline.
In this emergency episode, we look at what happened, what the impact was, and discuss whether there are any solutions to prevent this from happening again. Spoiler: it's complicated!
Join the discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcceptanceCriteria/
And on the Discord: https://discord.gg/2Tyj8H9MFF
The post E034: CrowdStrike / Windows Catastrophe – the largest IT outage in history first appeared on Acceptance Criteria.