100 days after CrowdStrike’s nightmare scenario, things are back to normal

Doom-laden predictions of businesses abandoning the security-infrastructure provider haven’t come to fruition.

On July 18, we experienced one of the biggest screw-ups in the history of the digital era. Millions of computers worldwide running the Windows operating system didn’t turn on. The culprit: a configuration issue with the Falcon Sensor tool developed by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. In simplest terms, an incorrect update was automatically pushed out to users that contained a fatal fault, sending computers falling like dominos as the world woke up.