Code review, QA team, hours of being baked on an internal test network, incremental exponential roll out to the world, starting slow so that any problems can be immediately rolled back. If they didn’t have those basics, they have no business being a tech company, let alone a security company who puts out windows drivers.
I really don’t want to be the guy responsible for this fuck up
For a company this big it would also have to have gotten past a code review and QA team, right? … right? …
Of course, of course. This is how these things are always done.
I like how they kept on pushing the update for hours
And who pushes out production updates on a Friday!
We do.
“If something goes down over the weekend, fewer people see it” - my leadership team.
I guess Asia can report the problem on Sunday and I’ll get a nastygram and fix it that afternoon.
“Security”
Code review, QA team, hours of being baked on an internal test network, incremental exponential roll out to the world, starting slow so that any problems can be immediately rolled back. If they didn’t have those basics, they have no business being a tech company, let alone a security company who puts out windows drivers.
This is an industry wide issue. This is just the first symptom.
What we need is to stop the blind trust
Yeah and that means they won’t nail some poor schmuck to the wall over this?
He’ll just get fired, apply somewhere else, and they’ll only know the dates he worked at CrowdStrike.
If anybody cared, they would have switched away from M$ by now.