As the dust settles over what has been one of the most disruptive IT failures ever, the funky CrowdStrike update that blue-screened more than 8.5 million devices across the planet, it’s a good time to reflect on what actually happened. Yeah, I know, “disruptive” undersells it a tad, but cluster@$!& was deemed editorially unacceptable.
Call it what you will – CrowdSpike, ClownStrike or, my personal favourite because I coined it, the IT CrowdStrike – the incident was the single most significant cause of tech disruption since WannaCry back in 2017. It was also, perhaps inevitably, the biggest source of technical misinformation since social media made everyone an expert on everything. I mean, seriously, where did all these so-called endpoint and cloud security experts come from?
Days after the incident, days…
