Was today fun at CDW towers?
CrowdStrike is used at CDW on internal systems and resold to customers.
Feel bad for the infosec team.
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https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2024/08/02/crowdstrike-crwd-faces-securities-class-action-after-flawed-falcon-sensor-update
That would get you a one-way ticket to the unemployment line. The executive leadership aren’t going to burn energy on what’s going on at the lower levels. They believe we have the right people in charge of departments & that they’ll do the right thing for coworkers. They’re wrong, those leaders are all about themselves
1 Wish to come out of this mess is for executive leadership to require those people leaders to explicitly communicate to their reports that it is not only okay to speak up where appropriate but actually encouraged!
Crowdstrike's IT outage that brought the world to a grinding halt could cause a $16 BILLION loss for the company - a fifth of its entire value.
The outage caused Microsoft systems to crash across the world, with everywhere from airports, banks and supermarket systems met with a blue screen. All United, Delta and American Airlines flights were grounded amid the chaos. Crowdstrike shares plummeted, losing a fifth of their value in trading in th US
According the projections based of the fall in share value, this would result in a loss of almost $16 billion in the company's value.
i can't imagine how difficult it was for those teams effected but especially IT teams and IT teams globally. The crowdstrike debacle is congressional hearings level of bad imo.