On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.
With John Chidgey.

About Causality (TV):

Introducing Causality TV
Causality TV Episode 1: CrowdStrike (Video Release)

Formal Report:

Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report
Channel File 291 Incident Root Cause Analysis (PDF)

News Releases and Articles:

CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown
CrowdStrike Senior Executive Adam Meyers faces CyberSecurity Committee
CrowdStrike exec apologises before US Congress for software glitch behind July global outage | Reuters
1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike Outage

General Information:

CrowdStrike
2024 CrowdStrike incident
What is CrowdStrike?
Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance Hub
Antivirus XML Configuration File for CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor
Named Pipes
Pipes (Interprocess Communications)
Wildcard character

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Episode Gold Producers: 'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.