Comment on An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience

• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard differently. But if it’s true, that should have been a non-starter for the product for exactly reasons like this. This is basic stuff.

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  • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Companies use crowdstrike so they don’t need internal cybersecurity. Not having automatic updates for new cyber threats sorta defeats the purpose of outsourcing cybersecurity.

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    • hangonasecond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Automatic updates should still have risk mitigation in place, and the outage didn’t only affect small businesses with no cyber security capability. Outsourcing does not mean closing your eyes and letting the third party do whatever they want.

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      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Outsourcing does not mean closing your eyes and letting the third party do whatever they want.

        It shouldn’t, but when the decisions are made by bean counters and not people with security knowledge things like this can easily (and frequently) happen.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not bothering doing basic, minimal testing - and other mitigation processes - before rolling out updates is absolutely terrible policy.

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