Security - secure IT with Microsoft and Crowdstrike

25.07.2024
Falk Birkner

… that was certainly the conviction of the decision-makers and administrators when they opted for this infrastructure.

Understand me correctly - I’m not gloating or gloating about this article. But the failure of several global infrastructures last week made it clear that diversification of the system landscape is supposedly more expensive in terms of procurement costs. But, as always, the bill is settled at the end. The losses in billions of euros will probably remain with the operators and therefore with the customers (us!).

I had already noticed the company Crowdstrike with a fairly large stand at last year’s it-sa in Nuremberg. Their approach - cross-manufacturer data collection and AI-based cloud computing - is very convincing in my view. An absolutely professional company - but they could give us a call about ’testing’ ;-).

I really liked an article by Jürgen Schmidt on the Heise website in this context. Among other things, he writes: „… Und da kommt tatsächlich auch wieder Microsoft ins Spiel. Mit seiner Software, die so fehlerbehaftet ist, dass ein sicherer Betrieb kaum noch möglich ist, mit dem Treiben der Kunden in die (Microsoft-)Cloud und mit dem systematischen Zugrunderichten der eigenen Security-Kultur hat der Konzern wesentlich zur aktuell so brandgefährlichen Gesamtsituation beigetragen …“ Worth reading: https://www.heise.de/meinung/Fatales-Crowdstrike-Update-Wir-brauchen-mehr-Herstellerhaftung-9807499.html

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