{"id":15199,"date":"2024-07-19T19:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/what-is-crowdstrike-and-how-did-it-cause-a-global-windows-outage\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T19:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T17:37:20","slug":"what-is-crowdstrike-and-how-did-it-cause-a-global-windows-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/what-is-crowdstrike-and-how-did-it-cause-a-global-windows-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CrowdStrike and how did it cause a global Windows outage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems \u2013 it ended up taking them down<\/p>\n

A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one of the largest IT failures<\/a> in history.<\/p>\n

The cause of the disruptions originated from a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, which provides software to a wide range of industries. An update to one of CrowdStrike\u2019s pieces of software, Falcon Sensor, malfunctioned, throwing a wrench into computers running Windows malfunctioned, leading to major tech failures around the world, the company said.<\/p>\n

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\nSoftware made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems \u2013 it ended up taking them down
\nA global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one of the largest IT failures in history.
\nThe cause of the disruptions originated from a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, which provides software to a wide range of industries. An update to one of CrowdStrike\u2019s pieces of software, Falcon Sensor, malfunctioned, throwing a wrench into computers running Windows malfunctioned, leading to major tech failures around the world, the company said. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Software made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems \u2013 it ended up taking them down A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one of the largest IT failures …<\/p>\n

What is CrowdStrike and how did it cause a global Windows outage?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}