239 | Breaking Analysis | CrowdStrike Incident Sounds an Alarm for Critical Infrastructure

On this week’s episode of Breaking Analysis, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, talks about the recent incident with CrowdStrike, as a problematic content update caused major system outages across various industries, underscoring the fragility of critical infrastructure.
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A flash survey by ETR revealed that 55% of the affected CrowdStrike customers surveyed are now reconsidering their reliance on the company. The incident, attributed to an automated update affecting Windows systems, required extensive manual recovery efforts and highlighted significant vulnerabilities in digital transformation practices.
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CrowdStrike has openly admitted that the recent issue was due to a flawed update process rather than a cyberattack. However, the complete financial and reputational impact of the incident remains uncertain.
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[@AlohaTimes]

The severity and magnitude of this failure by Crowdstrike, not just its nature, would cause CISOs to pause because CISOs are generally risk averse and prudent

[@BrawndoDrinker]

Implicit trust in software supply chain is dumb. Virtual sandboxing of build images is not rocket science.