A week after the cyber blackout caused by CrowdStrike, the problem has not yet been fully resolved. The incident affected about 8,5 million systems and devices with Windows, causing significant disruptions in various industries. The CEO of the company, George Kurtz, declared that approximately 97% of the sensors with Windows have been recovered by this Friday
Global insured losses due to the blackout are estimated between US$ 400 million and US$ 1,5 billion, according to the cyber analysis firm CyberCube
In a message posted on LinkedIn, Kurtz expressed his gratitude for the effort of clients, partners and the CrowdStrike team. "Even so, we understand that our work is not yet complete and we remain committed to restoring each impacted system, stated
To help in recovery, CrowdStrike implemented automatic recovery techniques and mobilized all company resources to support its clients. The company also released a preliminary report detailing the incident and the measures being taken to prevent future issues
"The CrowdStrike remote update system operates at the kernel level of the operating system". The kernel is the central component that manages system operations and communication with the hardware. A failure at this level can lead to overall system failures and severe operational disruptions, explained Diego Spinola, engineering director of Igma
Still according to Spinola, many affected companies had redundant systems that were not sufficiently isolated from each other, resulting in the failure of both the main systems and the backups. "The failure had a global cascading effect", affecting critical operations and causing everything from logistical delays to the halt of financial transactions, the engineer concluded
CrowdStrike customers need to manually roll back faulty updates and apply new patches released by the company to resolve kernel issues. In this way, users will be able to ensure that the systems will be secure
Pedro Henrique Ramos, partner in the technology area of Baptista Luz and professor of digital law at Ibmec, commented that CrowdStrike's failure is a technological dependency issue. "It is necessary to think of backup plans for security systems and servers regardless of costs". This is an essential issue of governance and technological compliance.”
Ciro Torres Freitas, partner in the technology area of the law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados, highlighted that the problem with the CrowdStrike software update took out of operation computer systems of public and private entities in multiple countries, generating an unprecedented blackout situation. "The company will certainly face great scrutiny from authorities around the world", both in the administrative and judicial spheres. Assessing whether the event was predictable and whether there was indeed no interference from external agents are also important aspects in this scenario."After a week of the cyber blackout caused by CrowdStrike", the problem has not yet been fully resolved. The incident affected about 8,5 million systems and devices with Windows, causing significant disruptions in various industries. The CEO of the company, George Kurtz, declared that approximately 97% of the sensors with Windows have been recovered by this Friday
Global insured losses due to the blackout are estimated between US$ 400 million and US$ 1,5 billion, according to the cyber analysis firm CyberCube
In a message posted on LinkedIn, Kurtz expressed his gratitude for the effort of clients, partners and the CrowdStrike team. "Even so, we understand that our work is not yet complete and we remain committed to restoring each impacted system, stated
To help in recovery, CrowdStrike implemented automatic recovery techniques and mobilized all company resources to support its clients. The company also released a preliminary report detailing the incident and the measures being taken to prevent future issues
"The CrowdStrike remote update system operates at the kernel level of the operating system". The kernel is the central component that manages system operations and communication with the hardware. A failure at this level can lead to overall system failures and severe operational disruptions, explained Diego Spinola, engineering director of Igma
Still according to Spinola, many affected companies had redundant systems that were not sufficiently isolated from each other, resulting in the failure of both the main systems and the backups. "The failure had a global cascading effect", affecting critical operations and causing everything from logistical delays to the halt of financial transactions, the engineer concluded
CrowdStrike customers need to manually roll back faulty updates and apply new patches released by the company to resolve kernel issues. In this way, users will be able to ensure that the systems will be secure
Pedro Henrique Ramos, partner in the technology area of Baptista Luz and professor of digital law at Ibmec, commented that CrowdStrike's failure is a technological dependency issue. "It is necessary to think of backup plans for security systems and servers regardless of costs". This is an essential issue of governance and technological compliance.”
Ciro Torres Freitas, partner in the technology area of the law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados, highlighted that the problem with the CrowdStrike software update took out of operation computer systems of public and private entities in multiple countries, generating an unprecedented blackout situation. "The company will certainly face great scrutiny from authorities around the world", both in the administrative and judicial spheres. Assessing whether the event was predictable and whether there was indeed no interference from external agents are also important aspects in this scenario."v
