Questions Raised Following the CrowdStrike Outage
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CrowdStrike’s historic outage has left many wondering if proper update procedures were followed, and if cloud computing is worth the risks.
From The Epoch Times. As companies and government agencies around the world scramble to restore their computer systems following last week’s global outage from a faulty software update, questions are being raised about whether proper protocols for updates were followed.
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Simultaneously, technology analysts are raising concerns about the extent of the United States’ increasing dependence on an oligopoly of cloud computing firms.
An antivirus software update issued on July 19 by CrowdStrike, one of the largest cybersecurity companies, caused more than 1 billion Windows-based computers to crash, taking down essential operations at airports, hospitals, 911 centers, police departments, trains, jails, municipal services, and corporate operations. …
Cybersecurity experts have raised questions about whether CrowdStrike may have circumvented best-practice procedures when it circulated the July 19 update. …
“Software updates, by best practice/protocol, should go through numerous stages of testing prior to touching a customer,” Tom Marsland, training and project manager of Cloud Range and author of “Unveiling the NIST Risk Management Framework,” told The Epoch Times.
“This would include automated unit testing on the code, security reviews, and testing inside of the CrowdStrike team [and] only once those actions are completed should a patch be rolled out to customers,” Mr. Marsland said.
In addition, updates should be rolled out initially to a smaller group of customers and then expanded, rather than sent out broadly all at once, he said.
“In the case of the CrowdStrike update on Friday, it does not appear those practices were followed,” Mr. Marsland said. …
The ‘Cascading Effects’ of the Faulty Update
According to an assessment by the CIS, the effects of the faulty update became apparent just after midnight Eastern time on July 19, when computers operating on Microsoft’s Windows software that implemented updates from CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software went down. …
CrowdStrike quickly assured customers that the outage was not a cybersecurity attack.
“They’re saying that this isn’t a cybersecurity attack, but it had the same net result as a cybersecurity attack,” Rex Lee, a security adviser to companies and governments, told NTD News, an Epoch Times affiliate. “We’re talking about government agencies, we’re talking about Fortune 500 businesses, airlines … the cascading effects of this are unbelievable.
“If you look at the critical infrastructure that’s being affected, this is actually going to cause harm and people may be dying as a result of this, because first responders are being affected, hospitals are being affected. We won’t know the total damage from all this, but it’s going to go down in history as the largest mistake and/or outage in the history of the internet.”
The shift by companies and government agencies to cloud computing has been rapid and continues to accelerate. …
But last week’s outage has highlighted the issue of company and societal vulnerabilities because of the extent to which cloud computing services are controlled by a small number of providers. …
Societal and National Security Risks
Amid the rush to shift operations onto the cloud, the CrowdStrike outage will likely spur users to reassess the extent of their dependence on one or a few service providers, and their ability to weather errors by providers. …
After the CrowdStrike outage, companies and governments are now seeing the risks, as well as the benefits.
“There are absolutely societal and national security risks from putting all of your eggs in a single vendor basket, and I think those were clearly indicated in the past 72 hours when we grounded most flights nationwide,” Mr. Marsland said.
“The benefits of the cloud versus the risks is something each organization must answer for themselves,” Mr. Marsland said. “For organizations seeking a broader customer base, the benefits absolutely do outweigh the risks—but these organizations can afford to hire experts in cloud security.”
On a personal level, individuals who store their data in the cloud also face risks.
According to a 2023 report by the Information Security Office at the University of Texas, those risks include security risks, privacy risks, and reliability risks. …
CrowdStrike reportedly represents about 15 percent of the cybersecurity market, catering to larger organizations and second only to Microsoft, which has an approximate 40 percent market share, according to Gartner. Its share price tumbled by more than 25 percent since the outage.
Speculation has focused on the firm’s ability to weather the current crisis, retain customers, and continue to grow its business. But beyond that, CrowdStrike may be facing substantial bills from its clientele.
Law firms throughout the country have already announced investigations into damages from the outage, a likely prelude to class-action lawsuits. …
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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: QueenBarenziah – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130534314)
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Maybe it was God showing His disapproval of the Homosexuals mocking Him.
Father, we have come to rely on others too much for these services. We’ve gone too “global.” Reign us in, Lord. I thank You for this “glitch” so that businesses can and should rethink about how to have a backup system of conducting business should something like this happen again. So much business is conducted through the “cloud” that a major cyber attack or some other type of attack could completely shut down everything. I ask You to send wisdom and knowledge to business people everywhere as to how to prevent a complete shutdown. Thank You. Amen.
We know these are crucial times. Atmosphere we all know as Internet which works through atmosphere, we cannot just rely on AI. we need to get back to the basics so we don’t have to fall short when the economy or the internet crashes. Cash on hand is a must.
I have seen even the use of morse code
I am hoping this is the biggest opportunity for people of faith to consider the fulfillment in Revelation 13. The whole world has followed after something that includes businesses with blasphemous names on them.
I live in a small city suburb, as compared to someplace like Harrisburg or Pittsburg, PA, its a small town, less of a city.
Our local facilities include one main hospital, one small shopping mall, two ” plazas” like the ones surrounding a WalMart area, a few local specialty stores,then the local utility companies. Much of the housing in dowtown area is rental properties in buildings as old as 75- 100 yrs old! So, all of that to say,
we also only have 3 choices of wifi/ internet/ telephone services. When the CROWDSTRIKE incident happened, the main hospital, and tbe urgent care centers were affected , and the urgent cares still were not fully operating by Tues of last week! For years now,there have been plenty of warnings about these things were going to happen, with the onset of CV19, and everything else since, if one has been paying attention, nothing has been ” normal” since. We all want it to be, and try our best to make it as best we can,but evil has pervaded every single aspect of a daily life!
Its not just the political arena, the medical/ pharma arena, the educational system or the Big Tech, or Military Complex, its that Evil has run rampant while we were Distracted just trying to survive everything thrown at us!
If we think about one example of how Satan asked God for permission to test Job’s faith, and argued with God that Job would “curse God and die”, instead of having his faith remain, God allowed the tests, except to give satan the right to take Job’s life!
Its a good time to refresh your mind and soirit by reading the book of Job. We are being tested, the demons are having tbeir heyday in every part of human life, and will.use anything in their power to deceive and ruin humans, especially Christians, before the Last Day! We can’t give up, give in, or hide from the world! More and more frightening things will come, the pandemic was a huge test, as well as the vaxxes, to find out it was a planned event, still makes some people think ” your crazy for saying so”…but, even with all the proof, their eyes are not opened. The next thing Bird Flu coming from cow’s, their milk, and beef cattle, and their meat! Listen, common sensecsays, 1st, that would be Bovine flu, and secondly, fowls passing flu to bovine, bovine passing it to humans, Impossible! Listen to tbe Doctors who spoke out against CV19, who were forced out of their medical.practice and lost licenses because they told the truth. The Wellness Company was started as a
result, and blessing to many people who needed the right meds and supplements, that compliant drs. would not prescribe!
It is the same with these tech companies, more of these things will happen, especially with AI now released and evil controlling their programming! We need to realize, going back to being as independent from gov. run entities as much as possible, will be how we survive until Jesus Christ returns.
Dear Father,
Its Your strength, Your guidance, Your Words of Truth and Righteousness that we can depend upon, because You are the same, Yesterday, Today, and Forever!
Help us to know You better, and to bec
become more in tune, awake to your teachings and how you provide for us, as we lean all upon you and less and less on the ” world, and its control” over us.
Help us to have ears to hear, eyes to see, hearts and minds to understand.
In Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior we pray
Amen