Security News > 2024 > July > CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will

Opinion CrowdStrike's recent Windows debacle will surely earn a prominent place in the annals of epic tech failures.

In the beginning, Microsoft enabled CrowdStrike's Falcon security software to run at the zero level of the Windows kernel.

Returning to CrowdStrike, the company claims a "Logic error" in a routine sensor configuration update caused the meltdown.

How did such a catastrophic bug pass quality assurance? CrowdStrike admitted: "Due to a bug in the Content Validator, one of the two Template Instances passed validation despite containing problematic content data [and] were deployed into production." When your software has deep hooks into millions of Windows systems, your testing should be bulletproof.

Clearly, CrowdStrike's testing protocols need a massive overhaul.

In the end, CrowdStrike's Windows fiasco is a textbook example of Murphy's Law in action - anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

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