The Crowdstrike disaster is an example of implementing worst practices. In other words, people believing Crowdstrike’s marketing, that software can protect you (or your business) from zero day attacks with third party software is implementing worst practices – as none of these products can protect you from a zero day attack.
The first fact to consider is that no-one needs to purchase anti-virus software anymore; because, both major operating systems come with software that is more than adequate to guard against non-zero day attacks.
The second fact to consider is that the best way to mitigate against zero-day attacks AND malware attacks (i.e. ransomeware) is to make sure all your software is updated (OS and Apps) to the latest version (ASAP) & have a daily backup regiment in place. If all of the businesses disrupted by the Crowdstrike update had followed these practices, the disaster wouldn’t have happened.
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