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CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown

CrowdStrike releases its analysis of last month's global IT outage, revealing an "embarrassing" mistake experts say first-year programming students are taught how to avoid.

CrowdStrike would be feeling "very embarrassed" after issuing its Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of the faulty software update that led to potentially the largest global IT outage in history, experts say. On July 19, the fateful Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Friday, about 8.5 million Windows systems around the world went into meltdown when an update for CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor product went very wrong. "The fact that the CrowdStrike developers were able to have this obvious inconsistency between the data file format and the software code means that the most basic forms of quality review and assurance were not being correctly carried out."

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