The year 2024 was shaken when CrowdStrike, an Endpoint protection service, went down for hours due to a cyberattack. Such incidents show how being dependent on the security model cloud cyberinfrastructure is a threat to security, as it creates vulnerabilities in the system and exposes organizations to cyberattacks. Niranjan Reddy Kotha delves deeper into the problems here in Analysis of 2024 CrowdStrike Outage. Moreover, he also gives insights on how organizations can adapt their cybersecurity practices, given that the world is moving towards cloud dependency.
Understanding the CrowdStrike Outage
Relying solely on cloud infrastructure to fight threats proved flawed in 2024 when CrowdStrike went offline. The CrowdStrike outage lasted over a few hours, leaving every organization that used its services vulnerable as it had no security systems to detect or counter the attack. Such an outage extensively highlighted and exposed what was already prevalent: being overly reliant on SaaS providers.
CrowdStrike did apologize and tried to relieve the …