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Microsoft offers advice on avoiding another CrowdStrike-style outage
In a blog post published on Friday, David Weston, vice president, enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, outlined the causes of the global incident which saw millions of devices running CrowdStrike Falcon on Windows crash.
According to Microsoft's kernel-crash dump analyses, the root cause of the outage was a memory safety issue, specifically a read out-of-bounds access violation in CrowdStrike's CSagent.sys driver, ...
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