Wouldn't any internal testing have cought this issue at CrowdStrike?
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2024
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A smoke test, aka turn it on and "see if it catches fire," would have caught this.
And a controlled rollout would've limited the damage.
Yes. Why would anyone trust Crowdstike after this? They’ve ignored foundational deployment steps.
But will you try actually installing the update on a machine or 50 to see if you bork things horrifically?
Crowdstrike: "We are really focused on unit testing right now"
I probably misread it, don't mind my grumbling, rabble rabble rabble
CrowdStrike report of the incident: https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/
Local developer testing
Hmm, didn't think of that one...
staggered deployment strategy
Also a novel idea...
It's like they're catching up to best practices from 10 years ago, good job team!
Listening to literally any sysadmin would have had these practices already in play.
I wonder if any are in the building, of if it's all devs and "platform engineers."
Systems in scope include Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and above that were online between Friday, July 19, 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday, July 19, 2024 05:27 UTC and received the update.
Definitely incorrect. My machine was powered off by physical switch at that time. It was powered off at 17:00 the day before and powered up at 08:00 CEST / 06:00 UTC and promptly bluescreened.