To elaborate, CrowdStrike’s target audience is commercial and government entities, not individuals. Most individual users’ machines were not affected. Individuals are generally using something like Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, or just Defender on its own.
Yeah, that’s the funniest part to me. The vast majority of people, world wide, had no idea CrowdStrike even existed. Only those in It in commercial or government would have possibly known who they were. Now the world’s introduction to CrowdStrike is it setting everything on fire. Talk about bad PR.
Not that it will really matters, I figure that the lawsuits for damages will be in the billions if not trillions. Their best bet will be to declare bankruptcy and rebrand under a different name.
Their CEO used to be with Kaspersky. Then they pushed an update that crashed lots of computers, went down the drain and were bought off. So the CEO founded Crowdstrike.
Protip: Don’t buy security software from whatever company he’s currently CEO of.
To elaborate, CrowdStrike’s target audience is commercial and government entities, not individuals. Most individual users’ machines were not affected. Individuals are generally using something like Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, or just Defender on its own.
Yeah, that’s the funniest part to me. The vast majority of people, world wide, had no idea CrowdStrike even existed. Only those in It in commercial or government would have possibly known who they were. Now the world’s introduction to CrowdStrike is it setting everything on fire. Talk about bad PR.
Not that it will really matters, I figure that the lawsuits for damages will be in the billions if not trillions. Their best bet will be to declare bankruptcy and rebrand under a different name.
Their CEO used to be with Kaspersky. Then they pushed an update that crashed lots of computers, went down the drain and were bought off. So the CEO founded Crowdstrike.
Protip: Don’t buy security software from whatever company he’s currently CEO of.