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How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos
System administrators and their teams sprang into action last Friday and worked tirelessly to get their companies back online amid one of the worst digital blackouts ever.
Just before 1:00 am local time on Friday, a system administrator for a West Coast company that handles funeral and mortuary services woke up suddenly and noticed his computer screen was aglow. The security firm accidentally caused chaos around the world on Friday and into the weekend after distributing faulty software to its Falcon monitoring platform, hobbling airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, both small and large. “The confidence we built in drips over the years was lost in buckets within hours, and it was a gut punch,” Shawn Henry, chief security officer of CrowdStrike, wrote on LinkedIn early Monday.
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