CrowdStrike Disaster: Causes, Impact, and How to Prevent Future Outages

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On July 19, 2024, the world witnessed one of the largest IT outages in history. A sensor configuration update from CrowdStrike, pushed to all Windows systems at 4:09 UTC, caused 8.5 million Microsoft Windows PCs to crash worldwide. Airlines, banks, hospitals, government agencies, stock exchanges, and countless other organizations were brought to a standstill. In this video, I break down what happened and, more importantly, what you can do to prevent something like this from happening in your organization.

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CrowdStrike Disaster: Causes, Impact, and How to Prevent Future Outages