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And that's why the IT dept needs to test all software updates before rolling them out on the productive systems.
Yeah, a lot of people are (understandably) mad at Crowdstrike right now, but I want to drag some c-suite executives into a conference room and impress upon them the value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery. Banks, airlines, service providers, these aren't mom-and-pop bakeries and plumbers who don't have time for all that nonsense. Every service that went down should be looking for the fuckwit in their organization, and they're probably in the executive lounge. Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes dedication to systematically ignore the best advice of top experts in the field and run your infrastructure on a shoestring budget.
IT is just a cost center to most executives.
Software development is also a cost center in my company I work for.
... value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery ...
I mean, they do have a test environment. Everyone does have one!
They're just missing a separated production environment....
Man, money for a test environment is pretty low on my list of priorities right now. I'm trying to row a 20 man boat with one other person.
The CTO of Clownstrike presided over a similar disaster in 2010 too. AFAIK.
Nah real men commit straight to prod. Why yes, I do have 13 bastard children, condoms are also for cowards
Guys.....this is TOTALLY Rick. He's just avoiding his child support payments.
I invoke the shaggy defense
Yes, don't do what I do at home and edit live PHP with users on the server...
If they're as slow to roll out the updates to CS as they are the rest of the updates we'll be a year behind on CS updates haha.
Been awhile since we've POCed Crowdstrike, but I don't think you can set the cadence on updates for Crowdstrike. I believe Crowdstrike enforces auto-updates, it was at least the default setting.
Deploy to prd! I'm on holiday.
Cmon guys, it's Crowdstrike implementing the 4 day week.
Or the 7 day week if you're in IT.
Luckily I'm using Linux!
What is crowd strike and is it a Microsoft product?
CrowdStrike is a popular third-party suite of security software that has forced OTA updates. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/tech/crowdstrike-update-global-outage-explainer/index.html It’s not a Microsoft product.
crowdstrike doing just a little of tomfoolery
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