‘Expect them to do better': San Diego cybersecurity expert weighs in on CrowdStrike outage

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The global cybersecurity company, CrowdStrike, sent out the update late Thursday. USD cybersecurity professor Nikolas Behar says it was not ready to roll out.

It was all hands on deck at NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 Friday morning, just like it was in so many different industries worldwide,

“They are writing software and there can be bugs, things happen,” Behar said. “But on this scale, maybe they should have tested their software before pushing it out, right? Maybe they should have scanned their code.” “These sorts of things, obviously you know, you try to understand and mitigate them,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in an interview with NBC News Friday. “And in some cases, you have a weird interaction. And it didn't seem like it happened on every Windows system, there's different versions and flavors and patch levels, if you will. And we’re just trying to sort out where that negative interaction was.

So what do you, as a consumer, need to know about this incident? CrowdStrike says it was not a cyberattack. Behar said it does not affect consumers directly, as CrowdStrike is mainly an enterprise-grade product and everything seems to be getting back to normal.

 

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