We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.
I don’t think the Linux culture is very similar to the windows culture. At least for me personally, I wouldn’t use crowd strike and let them install whatever they want into my environment.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I bet you could bring it up with them now…
Damage@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You’re actually confirming good point about culture though. The fact that you couldn’t stop them doesn’t mean that it also happened to everybody else: some management might have listened. Linux users abhor adding weird shit to their OS, Windows users do it all the time.
candybrie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Essentially no one has crowdstrike on their personal machines. Not Windows users, Mac users, or Linux users. So it’s corporate/large organization culture that matters. And they absolutely use it.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you an admin in a corporate data center? If not, you’re not in the target audience for that product.
sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yup. And I think that says more about the corporate culture than the company that caters to them.
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Welcome to the world of big retailers! They would rather run Linux with crowdstrike than make their own system.
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not your machine, your choice of distro, or your choice of specific packages to use or not use. It’s a work tool you get handed as part of a job. So whether CrowdStrike runs on it or not is not your decision and you aren’t allowed (and usually not capable) to change that.
That’s an entirely different situation from one where you get a PC to do with as you please and set up yourself, or a private machine.
Plus we’re mostly talking endpoint devices for non-technical users with many of these difficult-to-fix devices as techs have to drive out to them. The users expect a tool, and they get a tool. A Linux would be customized and utterly locked down, and part of that would be the endpoint protection software.