• MNByChoice
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    2 months ago

    My guess as a Linux admin in IT.

    I understand the fix takes ~5 minutes per system, must be done in person, and cannot be farmed out to users.

    There are likely conversations about alternatives or mitigations to/for crowdstrike.

    Most things were likely fixed yesterday. (Depending on staffing levels.) Complications could go on for a week. Fallout of various sorts for a month.

    Lawsuits, disaster planning, cyberattacks (targeting crowdstrike companies and those that hastily stopped using it) will go on for months and years.

    The next crowdstrike mistake could happen at any time…

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      2 months ago

      Fully agree as a security engineer with a mostly Microsoft shop. We have some pending laptop fixes, but I think we’ve talked our cio out of hastily pulling out of CrowdStrike. Really, it didn’t hit us hard. Maybe down for 2-3 hours around 4 am Friday morning. Microsoft gives us many more issues more frequently and we don’t have constant talk of pulling it out…

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        2 months ago

        Microsoft gives us many more issues more frequently and we don’t have constant talk of pulling it out…

        Maybe you should ;)

        As a Linux user I deal with Windows issues way too often administering other laptops.