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Prior to Microsoft meltdown, CrowdStrike exec warned of ‘single point of failure’ — CrowdStrike VP Drew Bagley spoke last month about the risks of organizations locking their IT systems to a single vendor
A CrowdStrike VP last month outlined the risks of organizations locking their IT systems to a single vendor. That warning was all too relevant today as a CrowdStrike glitch takes PCs offline.
“A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm,” said Drew Bagley, CrowdStrike VP and counsel for privacy and cyber policy, in a talk the company sponsored at a Washington Post "Securing Cyberspace" event in D.C. By one vendor, he meant Microsoft, citing the Cyber Safety Review Board’s harsh assessment this April of a security culture that it found contributed to last summer’s compromises of government email systems by China-backed hackers. So does one of Bagley’s closing lines, which may have a great many CrowdStrike users nodding in agreement as they reboot PCs and servers Friday: “We can no longer tolerate solutions or architectures that risk crumbling from a single point of failure.”
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