CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.
CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.
As it should. They didn’t properly test the update, didn’t stagger its release, and pushed it out on a weekend. They deserve to get sued.
I’d say let this be a lesson to the industry, but I’m sure software vendors will just keep doing the same thing.
Honestly the amount of sheer negligence, incompetence and lack of oversight is staggering the potential amount of damage this caused on top of the fact that this was his second offense should make this a proper felony that he faces jail time for and the corporation needs to be dissolved, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating but this speaks a lot to the monopolistic nature of mega corporations that are to big to fail… because sometimes they fail.
It has always been common knowledge among systems designers that single point failure is brittle, which eventually leads to catastrophic failure. But centralization is often convenient, until you hit that catastrophic failure, and then you can put the price tag on it.
Which is to say, companies that were affected by the outage have done the math, and certainly they will if they’re part of these lawsuit efforts. Inevitably many of them have already discussed what they’re going to do to make sure that they don’t experience the same thing next week or next year.
Many software vendors won’t change. But some of the clients surely will, or have already.