Anyone in #cybersecurity wanna weigh in?
This is obviously what I'm spending some time writing about today.
https://hackernoon.com/microsofts-forced-updates-a-critique-of-the-global-it-outage
Discussion
This is one of the worst IT situations I have been apart of.
This is frustrating because we spend so much of our days making sure we keep everyone going. But when these things happen we have no say in the matter. We do our best but someone made a choice. We run patches one set behind to avoid this. But this bypassed that. So our safe guards are at the mercy of these corporations.
Then we answer to those that look to us in our community and work. It’s a reflection on us to those non technical folks.
The real issue is, big tech force you into thinking they have the answers. They slowly take away the options to weigh your own risk factors and instead tell you. So you can’t decide your own fate.
💯 it’s scary
The fact that Crowdstrike failed on Falcon Sensor at the same time Azure went down across the US is just too much. Failures on two fronts at the same time. How do you beat that?
It really makes you consider your choices. Cloud solutions are great but when you hit this scenario. You are shit out of luck. You have no real answers.
I sense a shift back to on prem in the near future. Orgs can only keep getting these hits so many times before the costs are too much from downtime.
Microsoft uses Crowdstrike for Azure
Ubuntu
ubuntu does this shit also
i only run Zorin because it supports my video card RX7800xt but i expect when all the official 2024 live usb's come out it will be working on all of them, just wasn't this year
i prefer arch but the setup is pain
Trisquel GNU/Linux with deblobbed Libre Kernel.
No Virus Torvalds!
Ubuntu is malware and an evil corporation just like Microsoft and Apple.
There’s trade offs like with everything.
It’s a terrible idea (specially for IT departments in a company) to leave it to anyone have that kind of control.
I’m old enough to remember IT having to make updates in testing environments before pushing to production. With office365 this has flipped the script on so much.
