CrowdStrike Outage Explained
For Wyoming Business Owners and Managers
A free guide written specifically for Wyoming business leaders from the EvnTec, a CyberWyoming member and guest blogger.
- What CrowdStrike is
- What happened on Friday July 19, 2024
- The impact on businesses – and what it means for you
- How to protect your business by reviewing IT strategies and contingency plans
Summary
CrowdStrike is a leading cyber security company, founded in 2011 and based in the United States. Essentially, they act as digital bodyguards for businesses and large organizations, protecting them from cyber threats like ransomware, malware, and other online attacks.
Falcon Sensor is CrowdStrike’s primary product, a cloud-based security system designed to detect and stop cyber threats in real time. It has a component resident on workstations and laptops that talks to the cloud.
The Falcon Sensor update caused Microsoft Windows to crash.
Visit EvnTec to get the guide on how to plan for a software conflict outage and how to engage in this discussion with your IT provider. Also, consider joining Wyoming’s Cybersecurity Competition for Small Businesses for additional help from CyberWyoming.
