CrowdStrike Outage Rolls On; Attention Turns to Software Update Quality Control

Both Microsoft and CrowdStrike, as well as other companies that were victimized by the outage, issued updates during the day Monday as they slowly completed the manual processes necessary to fix problems caused by a faulty software update executed Friday. CrowdStrike in particular added some color to its initial report that a software update to its Falcon Sensor caused the crash that sent 8.5 million Windows users headed for alternate devices, if they were available. The company also indicated in a separate ...