87 Crowdstrike Outage

Our host Ryan Koch (https://linkedin.com/in/kochryan) gives a quick briefing about the Crowdstrike outage. We talk about why you should care about it, what happened, as well as a couple of lessons we can take from the event. ### Resources and Shoutouts: - [Cost Estimate](https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/21/business/crowdstrike-outage-cost/index.html) - [What is Crowdstrike?](https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201864/crowdstrike-outage-explained-microsoft-windows-bsod) - [Why does Crowdstrike have kernel access?](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366598838/Why-is-CrowdStrike-allowed-to-run-in-the-Windows-kernel) - [Crowdstrike preliminary incident review](https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/) - [Fix instructions](https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/how-to-fix-crowdstrike-bsods-in-three-minutes-fix-requires-manual-changes-but-they-are-simple ) - [Join us on Discord](https://discord.gg/hECzBJh) ##### Music Credit: [Tumbleweeds by Monkey Warhol](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monkey_Warhol/Lonely_Hearts_Challenge/Monkey_Warhol_-_Tumbleweeds)