Caporegime
From a Don no less...
Global BSOD
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Soldato
Crowd...strike.
Interesting and somewhat apt company name.
Interesting and somewhat apt company name.
Soldato
It's been pretty bad reporting by a lot of the media outlets. They all seemed to have jumped on the Azure outage and blaming that/MS even though by 6/6:30AM it was fairly well known CrowdStrike were having issues and MS was well into restoring their Azure services - was already up monitoring Azure services in the states and the cybersec lot were already posting about CrowdStrike.
Be interesting to see how screwed CrowdStrike are after this; no doubt solicitors/lawyers either side of the table are running through their contracts to see if CrowdStrike can be made liable for losses.
Trialed Falcon (MacOS) a while back and it wasn't a bad product; costs and budget prevented us going with it though.
Yeah it's not even down to 3 month low. And PE is extreme.
I mean it's really down to if customers have an alternative, and if this damage is bad enough for them to go.. Nope.. I want a different provider.
That is the big one. And I'm not sure. Changing provider is a lot of work. And you'd think if this has happened once they'll put measures in place to not let it haagain.
Very tempted though as I was thinking about buying in recently
Caporegime
We have a P1 open for some of our apps, seems like the infrastructure team are working on fixing the affected servers.
Soldato
Took them a while huh.
Soldato
There's no also zero guarantee that the new provider won't push a borked update either. You could rip & replace your endpoint protection on 000s of devices but just find yourself in the same boat in some point in the future...
Go back far enough to Windows XP and you'll find when McAfee pushed a definition update for VirusScan which identified svchost.exe as a threat, so quarantined it...
You can see the impact on the share price. Dropped to 300 as those in the know sell up. Now the news is more common knowledge it's tanking more.
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Yeah that's what I mean. Probably more likely a new provider would. Once bitten, twice shy and all that.
After this you'd expect crowdstrike will likely be more careful and it maybe less likely?
I agree with you.. Just not sure how the people who make these decisions will react.
Soldato
Question is where will it be when the markets actually open in the US.
FYI I have bought in now. 20pc off is enough for me to have a go. Maybe too early. But here I am.
Sadly this is the world we have created.
^.... When this happens, people and organisations can't think without their computers now. You just have to watch people in the streets, all with their heads pointing at their phones all the time like bots and not even watching where they are going and who they maybe walking into because that mobile computer is more important.
Anyways the ironic thing that came out of this is it came from a company that was security related and meant to protect systems, not crash them. Nothing like a denial of service attack coming from the software/hardware meant to protect your systems.
Also Microsoft is to blame for this too not just CrowdStrike.. The OS is too easily tripped to this day with bad updates even coming from Microsoft themselves in most cases bricking systems.
Soldato
That price trajectory the last few days, given the month prior. Did someone know? Or coincidence
Yes I thought the same, it's a virus checker problem was said many times.