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Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
Date: 21 Jul 2024 18:42:25 GMT
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:53 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> In article <v7du6n$30rop$1@dont-email.me>, jmccue@hairball.jmcunx.com
> (John McCue) wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> > Pardon my ignorance, but what has crowdstrike got to do with Windows?
>> 
>> My understanding, Microsoft "outsourced" somekind of security function
>> to croudstrike, so just about all corporate Windows systems may have
>> this binary from croudstrike.
> 
> Not so. Crowdstrike is a commercial product, and in no way compulsory.
> At my employer, Windows servers have it, and some got hit, but Windows
> laptops and desktops do not, and were unaffected.


And to expand, CrowdStrike claims a 18.5% market share so the majority of 
servers with an EDR solution weren't affected.