{"id":15217,"date":"2024-07-20T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/the-microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:37:52","slug":"the-microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/the-microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft\/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>A global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. Over all the chaos hung a question: how did a flawed update to Microsoft Windows software bring large swaths of society to a screeching halt?<\/p>\n<p>The problem originated with an Austin-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, relied upon by most of the global technology industry, including Microsoft, for its Falcon program that blocks the execution of malware and cyber-attacks. Falcon protects devices by securing access to a wide range of internal systems and automatically updating its defenses \u2013 a level of integration that means if Falcon falters, the computer is close behind. After CrowdStrike updated Falcon on Thursday night, Microsoft systems and Windows PCs were hit with a \u201cblue screen of death\u201d and rendered unusable as they were trapped in a recovery boot loop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/20\/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c579c1c7aebeb39c9a628353df00042a6975f71f\/0_434_6505_3902\/master\/6505.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dcd6c2d23bc75674b43d8503ff9a9e11\" title=\"The Microsoft\/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization\" \/>As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure<br \/>\nA global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. Over all the chaos hung a question: how did a flawed update to Microsoft Windows software bring large swaths of society to a screeching halt?<br \/>\nThe problem originated with an Austin-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, relied upon by most of the global technology industry, including Microsoft, for its Falcon program that blocks the execution of malware and cyber-attacks. Falcon protects devices by securing access to a wide range of internal systems and automatically updating its defenses \u2013 a level of integration that means if Falcon falters, the computer is close behind. After CrowdStrike updated Falcon on Thursday night, Microsoft systems and Windows PCs were hit with a \u201cblue screen of death\u201d and rendered unusable as they were trapped in a recovery boot loop. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure A global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. 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