CIOs must reassess cloud concentration risk post-CrowdStrike [Video]

The global CrowdStrike meltdown shows what you risk when IT operations depend on a single point of failure. Reconsider your organization’s cloud concentration risk tolerance and define a strategy to match.

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It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk.

What is concentration risk?

CrowdStrike is regarded by many in the industry as the “Gold standard” in the EDR and anti-malware protection market. Its Falcon solution employs an agent on each endpoint device to continuously monitor them for and respond to cyber threats such as ransomware and malware. This agent-based approach, along with a flaw in CrowdStrike’s Rapid Response Content validation process, are central to the scope of blue screens of death (BSODs) many enterprises have had to remediate.

As enterprises bring their systems back online, IT leadership teams must certainly face questions about how they were impacted, and what their true exposure to these types of incidents are. Despite efforts to increase resiliencein recent years, everyone is going to feel …