What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’

I woke up Friday to discover CrowdStrike — a cybersecurity vendor who aims to protect orgs from cyber attacks such as availability outages — created the largest IT outage ever, by pushing out a duff product update globally and breaking just under 9 million Windows systems, which is basically the exact opposite of what businesses hire them to do.Those PCs entered a ‘boot loop’, where they would blue screen of death on boot, making them essentially unusable without steps to repair (or being very l… Read More