What Caused the Crowdstrike Outage: A Detailed Breakdown
Summary: The CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024, triggered a massive global IT disruption, affecting approximately 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems worldwide. The incident, caused by a faulty configuration update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor security software, resulted in system crashes and boot failures across numerous industries and government services. The outage's impact was exacerbated by concurrent issues [...]