The Four Key Issues CrowdStrike Exposed: CIOs' Next Steps
IDC, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
Organizations must redefine their long-term cyber recovery strategy.
IDC's Quick Take
The recent IT outage caused by silent updates pushed out by CrowdStrike to its Falcon agent exposes an issue that is at the heart of how the IT industry operates. It highlights the contrasting trust and attestation mechanisms taken by operating system vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Red Hat in allowing its ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) direct access to certain parts of the operating system stack and especially software that can potentially severely negatively impact the system kernel.