A cybersecurity firm that specializes in EDR software.

2024 Crowdstrike Bug

A bad piece of code was pushed to crowdstrike’s EDR. Since the EDR operated at Kernel Level, every software crash would also lead to a OS crash. The dependence on security outsourcing to crowdstrike EDR led many airports, banks and hotels to be inoperable until a technician went and disabled the software from Windows Safe Mode