The Gestalt IT Rundown
Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
You probably felt the pain this past Friday morning from a huge outage. No, not the one on Azure. A misconfigured update to popular security platform Crowdstrike took down over 8 million Windows PCs and servers.
The configuration file caused the system to halt and refuse to boot. Affected entities included mulitple airlines, healthcare systems, and even Starbucks Order Ahead. Fixes were developed and put into play but they required a reboot to safe mode or mounting an image on a new system to remove the offfending file, which ground AWS to a halt over the weekend. Crowdstrike's CEO released a statement that was not well received, especially because he was the CTO at McAfee when a simliar issue happened back in 2017.