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Crowdstrike’s massive cyber outage 1-year later: lessons enterprises can learn to improve security
The incident's legacy extends far beyond CrowdStrike. Organizations now implement staged rollouts and maintain manual override capabilities.
CrowdStrike’s root cause analysis revealed a cascade of technical failures: a mismatch between input fields in their IPC Template Type, missing runtime array bounds checks and a logic error in their Content Validator. Merritt Baer, incoming Chief Security Officer at Enkrypt AI and advisor to companies including Andesite, provides crucial context: “CrowdStrike’s outage was humbling; it reminded us that even really big, mature shops get processes wrong sometimes. Hiring a Chief Resilience Officer reporting directly to the CEO Project Ascent, exploring capabilities beyond kernel space Collaboration with Microsoft on the Windows Endpoint Security Platform ISO 22301 certification for business continuity management
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