• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Does any one here, working in IT, have a sense for how “on-going” this issue is expected to be? Is this something that is largely going to be resolved in a day or two, or is this going to take weeks/ months?

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      My guess as a Linux admin in IT.

      I understand the fix takes ~5 minutes per system, must be done in person, and cannot be farmed out to users.

      There are likely conversations about alternatives or mitigations to/for crowdstrike.

      Most things were likely fixed yesterday. (Depending on staffing levels.) Complications could go on for a week. Fallout of various sorts for a month.

      Lawsuits, disaster planning, cyberattacks (targeting crowdstrike companies and those that hastily stopped using it) will go on for months and years.

      The next crowdstrike mistake could happen at any time…

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        4 months ago

        Fully agree as a security engineer with a mostly Microsoft shop. We have some pending laptop fixes, but I think we’ve talked our cio out of hastily pulling out of CrowdStrike. Really, it didn’t hit us hard. Maybe down for 2-3 hours around 4 am Friday morning. Microsoft gives us many more issues more frequently and we don’t have constant talk of pulling it out…

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          4 months ago

          Microsoft gives us many more issues more frequently and we don’t have constant talk of pulling it out…

          Maybe you should ;)

          As a Linux user I deal with Windows issues way too often administering other laptops.