Comment by Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world on Malware As A Service

This is, in a lot of ways, impressive. This is CrowdStrike going full “Hold my beer!” about people talking about what bad production deploy fuckups they made.

You know you’ve done something special when you take down somebody else’s production system.

*production systems around whole world

Few people can put that into their CVs, that a real achievement!

I’m volunteering to hold their beer.

Everyone remember to sue the services not able to provide their respective service. Teach them to take better care of their IT landscape.

Typically auto-applying updates to your security software is considered a good IT practice.

Ideally you’d like, stagger the updates and cancel the rollout when things stopped coming back online, but who actually does it completely correctly?

Applying updates is considered good practice. Auto-applying is the best you can do with the money provided. My critique here is the amount of money provided.

Also, you cannot pull a Boeing and let people die just because you cannot 100% avoid accidents. There are steps in between these two states.

you cannot pull a Boeing and let people die

You say that, but have you considered the savings?

People are temporary. Money is forever.

I have. They are not mine. The dead people could be.

Edit: I understand you were being sarcastic. This is a topic where I chose to ignore that.

That’s totally fair. :)

I work at a different company in the same security space as cloudstrike, and we spend a lot of time considering stuff like “if this goes sideways, we need to make sure the hospitals can still get patient information”.

I’m a little more generous giving the downstream entities slack for trusting that their expensive upstream security vendor isn’t shipping them something entirely fucking broken.
Like, I can’t even imagine the procedureal fuck up that results in a bsod getting shipped like that. Even if you have auto updates enabled for our stuff, we’re still slow rolling it and making sure we see things being normal before we make it available to more customers. That’s after our testing and internal deployments.

I can’t put too much blame on our customers for trusting us when we spend a huge amount of energy convincing them we can be trusted to literally protect all their infrastructure and data.

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