[Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Rich Pieri
While the CrowdStrike (not to be confused with CloudFlare) fiasco Friday affected millions of Windows computers, Linux is not immune to such an event. I'm not familiar with CrowdStrike Falcon, but my employer uses competing PaloAlto Networks' Cortex XDR. It's a similar service with similar capabili

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Rich Pieri wrote: > While the CrowdStrike (not to be confused with CloudFlare) fiasco > Friday affected millions of Windows computers, Linux is not immune to > such an event. I'm not familiar with CrowdStrike Falcon, but my > employer uses competing PaloAlto Networks' Cortex XDR. It's a similar >

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Daniel M Gessel
On 2024-07-22 10:23, Dan Ritter wrote: Rich Pieri wrote: While the CrowdStrike (not to be confused with CloudFlare) fiasco Friday affected millions of Windows computers, Linux is not immune to such an event. I'm not familiar with CrowdStrike Falcon, but my employer uses competing PaloAlto Networ

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread markw
> On 2024-07-22 10:23, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Rich Pieri wrote: >>> While the CrowdStrike (not to be confused with CloudFlare) fiasco >>> Friday affected millions of Windows computers, Linux is not immune to >>> such an event. I'm not familiar with CrowdStrike Falcon, but my >>> employer uses competi

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread jim
  Crowdstrike name will now, and forever, be associated with one thing: MASSIVE SYSTEMIC FAILURE. Their stock will bleed and they will, at a minimum, need to change their name. Probably go out of business. They will face lawsuits. HIRE GOOD PEOPLE. TEST YOUR CODE. DEPLOY TO A SANDB

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Kent Borg
On 7/22/24 15:56, j...@gasek.net wrote: Shame on you if you accept and deploy a vendors patches without testing. Isn't that what Falcon customers are paying for, automatic installation of updates? Isn't that the religion at the moment? Aren't some people trying to make selling Internet of Shi

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
j...@gasek.net wrote: > > HIRE GOOD PEOPLE. > TEST YOUR CODE. > DEPLOY TO A SANDBOX FIRST. > DOUBLE CHECK STAGING FILES. > CROSSTRAIN YOUR STAFF. > CHECK YOUR WORK > > Right now the entire country is re-evaluating how they deploy patches. > > Shame on you if you accept and deploy a vendors

Re: [Discuss] CrowdStrike Fiasco

2024-07-22 Thread Rich Pieri
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:42:09 -0700 Kent Borg wrote: > Isn't that what Falcon customers are paying for, automatic > installation of updates? Isn't that the religion at the moment? > Aren't some people trying to make selling Internet of Shit (I mean > Internet of Things) devices illegal if they *do