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> CrowdStrike blamed their test software, but in the same breath revealed that they haven't been using any canary deployments. Their post-incident report [1] a
by duskwuff 2y ago
> CrowdStrike blamed their test software, but in the same breath revealed that they haven't been using any canary deployments.
Their post-incident report [1] also stated that they intend to improve testing by "using testing types such as: local developer testing". One has to wonder what, if any, testing they were doing beforehand.
[1]: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-content-update-preliminary-post-incident-report/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-content-update-preli...
- MBCook 2y agoWell we know what the testing is, don’t we? The update literally crashed the system it was used on. There’s no way they couldn’t know that unless they never ran it. Right? Is this one of those things that only happened to 10% of users? Because I haven’t seen that reported anywhere.
- duskwuff 2y ago> Is this one of those things that only happened to 10% of users? Because I haven’t seen that reported anywhere. As far as I'm aware, it affected all systems using Crowdstrike.