A faulty update of the platform of Informatic security CrowdStrike is the origin of the failure suffered in the Microsoft systems that has affected companies from all over the world.
The company has admitted that a update failed from his plataforma CrowdStrike Falconone of the protection systems of Windowshas caused the chaosand assures that already works to reverse these changes.
According to experts who explained it to EFE computer sciencethe latest driver update Falcon contained errors; immediately collapsed Azurethe cloud computing platform created by Microsoft for build, test, deploy and manage applications and services using its global infrastructure.
This caused the appearance of blue screens, known as “of death“, which showed that systems had stopped working all over the world, and that servers had to be restarted.
CrowdStrike suggests deleting a sys file – system files Windows-, but this does not guarantee at the moment the recovery of all functionssince, as experts explain to EFE, all the servers of a company are connected to each other, so that even if one “is levante” the rest may not work.
In addition, the servers themselves CrowdStrike are down, making it impossible to know for sure when the affected systems will be back up and running.
What is CrowdStrike
Founded in 2011 with an initial capital of 26 million dollarsand a service provider for some of the world’s largest companies, such as Microsoft and computer manufacturer Dell, CrowdStrike offers security services in the technological fieldand its platform CrowdStrike Falcon detects security breaches in real time.
CrowdStrike Falcon was the first intelligent security solution, native to the cloud and multi-tenantcapable of protecting workloads in on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-based environments running on a variety of endpoints, such as laptops, desktops, servers, virtual, machines and Internet of Things devices.
Through 28 cloud modules, the platform Falcon offers, through a model SaaS spanning multiple security markets – including corporate endpoints, security and IT operations-, managed security services, threat detection, cloud security, identity protection, data protection and cybersecurity generation.
The founder of CrowdStrikeGeorge Kuntz has spent 30 years developing his career in the world of technology, and before creating the company he worked for the computer antivirus company McAfee and for GM.
CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We…
— George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) July 19, 2024
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