The Sky Is Crying: The Wake of the 19 JUL 2024 CrowdStrike Content Update for Microsoft Windows and We Should Remember and Take Away From It
Friday the 19th was a challenging day for many organizations, teams, and individuals worldwide. We can all agree that it was stressful, and the impacts are still being assessed. It will take some time for many organizations to fully understand the ramifications of what has been called the single largest IT outage in history. On a personal note, my own family was impacted, which brought the matter home for me and many others. The outage resulted from a content update pushed by CrowdStrike to its global customer base. The systems impacted by this content update were those running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The organization has clearly acknowledged that neither […]
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