This is a 'black eye moment' for CrowdStrike and cybersecurity sector, says Wedbush's Dan Ives

So a billion dollar cyber security company released software without testing it first? Kyle the intern is so fired.

I work in IT for a well known retail company with about 1,000 locations in the USA. It hit us hard, not only our corporate employee's laptops, servers, etc are affected but the registers are down. Online ordering systems are down....there's no way to make money. We need to manually fix each store/person/register one by one. It's been a nightmare all day. Thought Fridays were supposed to be easy, smh. FML

Honestly, this situation makes me uneasy, especially with the potential depression, not just a recession. I'm not sure about my $130K investment strategy given the economic uncertainty.

A major technology news event without Wedbush’s Dan Ives is like a beach 🏖️ w/ no sand.

Release updates on a FRIDAY into PRODUCTION is crazy

My company is having lots of problems. 4 day weekend!

Microsoft (and probably CrowdStrike) software license are usually very clear : they are not responsible for anything! You are using their software at your own risk.

It’s very simple. I don’t understand how all these big companies all make the same mistakes. First never ever auto update. Second only update a few devices in staging environment for 30 days. Third, roll out update to production following successful staging test.

The Biggest Failure is that any update doesnt need to be mass implemented all at once, you have 1-2 days to deploy unless its a cve 8+, there is no reason why you cannot stagger out updates over 24-48 hours with 6 hours for 5% of clients to ensure stability. Lazyness at its extreme both from CrowdStrike and even IT managers that configured to auto update immedietly... Just amazed how complient everyone is to allow any updates to your business's PC's via AD etc without a testing phase of at least 24 hours... Companies realistically need to invest 10% of there budget to Cyber secrutity now but its more like 1-2% not enought in the slightest, as clearly shown... Trust a external entity to patch your systems without prior testing for a day duh.. CIO's failure 100%

Crowd strike needs to dissolve and Microsoft needs to be cut in half

If it's an update on CrowdStrike, shouldn't they be testing this update before deploying to production.

"Black eye moment", "epic disaster", "gold standard", "Apple, Cook, Cupertino Mt. Rushmore", "Mt. Everest up hill battle".

Something similar happened with mcAfee in 2010 and it took out computer networks globally

OK THIS IS NOT A CYBER ATTACK ITS A SOFTWARE ISSUE BUT THEN AGAIN THIS IS MSCBS

Every day, there are thousands of failed software updates (globally) that are rolled back. Today's CrowdStrike Falcon release upgrade snafu is simply a release error (or omission) that has a huge supply chain impact. The news media should focus on the topic of risks related to software release management processes.

Apple is less exposed to security vulnerabilities not because of corporate control of the "ecosystem" but because the underlying architecture of the operating system is Unix and the way Unix was designed makes it far more resistant to the kinds of security vulnerabilities Microsoft cannot escape from after all these years. Unix was designed from the ground up to be a multi-user system and Windows is a single user system. Internally this makes Unix far more resistant and less vulnerable while Windows is highly promiscuous under the hood. No one who is creating serious software or running servers of any kind should be doing so on Windows. Windows should not run anything more critical than a laptop or a gaming computer.

Employee's 4th month at the company: "Whoops..."

As of 10:10am on Friday July 19th, How is "the biggest issue the brand damage" when 911 system, airline, hospital, and bank systems were/are out? Doubtless that there are people who suffered and possibly died from lack of medical treatment due to this. Really showing where your priorities lie, Dan Ives.

I work in cybersecurity, what the hell did I do?

The reporter asked a very intelligent question for a non-IT person at 05:15 - why does this happen to Microsoft and not to Apple devices? Dan Ives explained that it's because of the Apple ecosystem, highlighting that Apple is less exposed on the corporate side and more focused on the consumer market. To expand on this, the underlying reason is that macOS is built on a UNIX foundation, specifically a variant of Unix called LINUX. Unix-based systems, including Linux and macOS, are renowned for their security and stability, which have been honed over decades. This secure foundation, originally developed by pioneers like Linus Torvalds (for Linux), provides a robust environment that is less susceptible to certain types of vulnerabilities. It's not just about Apple's innovations in Cupertino, but also about leveraging the strengths of Unix-like systems.