CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft - eviltoast

Here are the details about what went wrong on Friday.

  • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Yeah we do a lot around frameworks at my current place, and previously we worked directly with customers with iso and acsc essential 8 frameworks. For us, non-compliance = revenue opportunity. That means we are financially rewarded for aligning them and encouraged to do so. On that same note I wrote up a checklist for “sysadmin best practices” aimed for driving reviews and checks and Remedial opportunities for small businesses, useful in that space. I got such an overwhelming amount of response in the msp reddit from people asking in DMs about it (not hundreds, just dozens, too many for me though). It’s quiet here in lemmy. Happy to share my updated version of course, just I think if you’re dealing in your sector it’ll look like childs play lol. But I kind of want to encourage a bit of community within professionals here. I just don’t want do spend time on it…

    I feel you about the lowly experienced officer bit though. An account manager or business development manager, or even CTO won’t listen to me. I have a business degree, most of them don’t. I try to apply critical decision making in my solutions and risk advisory. But the words fall on deaf ears. I take a small but very guilty pleasure watching the very thing I warn against, happening both to clients and my employers. Especially when the prevention was trivial but all it needed was any amount of attention.

    After nearly 20 years of IT and about 15 in MSP I’m so tired. I’m very much resonating with that “lowly engineer” comment.