How You Can Avoid a CrowdStrike Fiasco

By now we’ve all heard about   or been affected by the CrowdStrike fiasco. If you haven’t, here’s a quick recap.

An update to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, pushed on a Friday afternoon, caused computers to crash and be unbootable. The update was pushed to all customers at once, and the only way to recover was to boot into “Safe Mode” and uninstall the update. That often required direct physical access to the affected computer, making recovery times even longer.

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