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0 pointsdarby_nine1y ago0 comments

> It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage.

If you spend enough time around VC's it becomes difficult to imagine how this doesn't happen more often. Many times companies grow too quickly for a clearly seasoned veteran of the market to get a chance to take the wheel. Combine this with "nobody ever got fired for purchasing IBM" and you get a perfect storm for taking out the IT infrastructure for an entire culture—all you need is a majoritarian marketshare and you can take out an entire people.

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not2b1y ago· 2 in thread

I think it's going to shift. Airlines in particular are probably going to decide that they can't afford to take another hit like this, and come up with a way to limit the damage if a software update (even from Microsoft) is broken, and come up with a way to test updates before pushing them to all devices.

VistaNumba11y ago

Ah, got it. So instead they'll just keep doing what they were already doing for half their systems: Keeping them without updates for decades. Those terminals survived, afterall.

alephnerd1y ago

> come up with a way to test updates before pushing them to all devices

This is SOP for plenty of purchasers already.

Some orgs just don't have the ability to build processes like that.

quantified1y ago

I think the leaders of Crowdstrike should be considered clearly seasoned veterans. George Kurtz was high up at McAfee. But maybe Cathleen Anderson is a little new to the chief of legal role.

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