Crowdstruck by CrowdStrike - TWiRT Ep. 706

As we are all very aware, being a technical person or layman, the recent CrowdStrike outage caused disruptions on a myriad of computer systems worldwide, affecting multiple industry sectors and millions of people in some way, shape, or form. Approximately 8.5 million devices were affected, leading to outages in various sectors, including airlines, healthcare, and financial institutions. Some broadcasters were affected, but it seems most radio broadcasters were spared. Why is that? What crippled many very large industries had relatively little impact on radio station operations. Three experts join this TWiRT episode: Shaun Dolan, Kyle Walker, and David Smedley. Together we’ll uncover how Crowdstrike affected some broadcasters, and we’ll learn about some best practices for IT security.

Show notes:

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

Kyle mentioned SNMP Monitoring using Nagios

Shaun introduced us to Incident Response - Here’s a TechTarget Article

And here’s an article from Crowdstrike about Incident Response