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Just a thought from experience: Be wary of any critical products and/or taking a job from a company run by an accountant. CrowdStrike CEO... accountant!
Accounting firms are an obvious exception.
80% of our machines were hit. We were working through 9pm on Friday night running around putting in bitlocker keys and running the fix. Our organization made it worse by hiding the bitlocker keys from local administrators.
Also gotta say... way the boot sequence works, combined with the nonsense with raid/nvme drivers on some machines really made it painful.
It might be CrowdStrike's fault, but maybe this will motivate companies to adopt better workflows and adopt actual preproduction deployment to test these sort of updates before they go live in the rest of the systems.
I know people at big tech companies that work on client engineering, where this downtime has huge implications. Naturally, they've called a sev1, but instead of dedicating resources to fixing these issues the teams are basically bullied into working insane hours to manually patch while clients scream at them. One dude worked 36 hours straight because his manager outright told him "you can sleep when this is fixed", as if he's responsible for CloudStrike...
Companies won't learn. It's always a calculated risk, and much of the fallout of that risk lies with the workers.
That comment about sleep...that's about where I tell them to go fuck themselves. I'll find a new job, I'm not going to put up with bullshit like that.
100% agree
Sounds so illegal, that it makes labour authoririty happy
Is it illegal? I'm not American so I have no idea if there are laws in your country against on-call maximum hours.
- It's not about oncall, they are literally in the office
- See 1
- Not sure about America, but it is very illegal in Russia.
That dude should not have put up with that.
Oh sweet summer child.
Might be hard to do. Crowdstrike release several updates per day to the channel files to match changes in adversarial behaviour. In this case, BCP and backup are what need to be done.