New Blog - When Updates Go Wrong: What the CrowdStrike Incident Teaches Us

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The blog post discusses the CrowdStrike incident, highlighting the risks of vendor concentration, cybersecurity implications, the importance of resilience and preparedness, and the need for shift-left security practices to build a more secure and resilient IT infrastructure.

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This code change introduces a blog post that discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident, where a faulty Microsoft system update affected around 8.5 million devices worldwide, causing a major outage. From an application security perspective, the post highlights several key lessons and recommendations:

1. Vendor Concentration Risk: The incident showcases the risks of over-relying on a single vendor, as it can create a single point of failure that can lead to widespread disruptions. IT leaders are advised to hold critical vendors to high standards of development, release quality, and assurance.

2. Cybersecurity Implications: While the CrowdStrike outage was not due to a security breach, it created an opportunity for cybercriminals to take advantage of the situation by creating fake websites and distributing malicious updates disguised as fixes.

3. Importance of Resilience and Preparedness: The blog emphasizes the need for organizations to enhance their IT infrastructure resilience and have a clear understanding of their risks. It suggests that senior leaders should proactively assess their resiliency measures and invest in areas that can help them recover quickly from such incidents.

4. Shift-Left Security Practices: The post highlights the importance of implementing robust security measures, such as automated testing, comprehensive security inspections, and real-time monitoring with rollback mechanisms, to help identify and mitigate issues earlier in the development process and reduce the likelihood of critical failures in production.

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• content/english/blog/when-updates-go-wrong-what-the-crowdstrike-incident-teaches-us/index.md: This file contains the blog post that discusses the lessons learned from the CrowdStrike incident and provides recommendations for organizations to build a more secure and resilient IT infrastructure, including the use of solutions like Capten.ai that can help enhance software supply chain security.

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