#securityvendors

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage

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September 19, 2024 at 12:19PM Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security reports 1 in 10 German organizations affected by CrowdStrike’s July outage are dropping their current vendor’s products. 4% have already abandoned solutions, with another 6% planning to do so. Despite potential business impacts, the incident hasn’t hurt CrowdStrike much yet. The findings are from … Read more

Microsoft Lowballs CrowdStrike Outage Impact

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July 29, 2024 at 04:40PM Microsoft revised the estimate of machines crashing due to the CrowdStrike Falcon outage, stating that the previous number of 8.5 million was too low. The company aims to reduce infosec vendors’ reliance on kernel drivers and emphasized the need to balance the benefits and risks of using such drivers for … Read more