A CrowdStrike update on 19 July 2024 affecting about 8.5 million Windows computers caused a lot of people grief as they had to postpone their vacation travels or worse their medical treatments were postponed or they could not reach the emergency response services. The estimated cost of this incident for the Fortune 500 companies is 5.4 billion US$, which is more than a full year of revenue for CrowdStrike. Note that… Read More »The CrowdStrike wake-up call
Recently I joined a panel discussion with the team of Quick Release on the topic of Configuration Management vs Variant Configuration Management. Thanks to Rob Ferrone and Omid Hosseinitabar for inviting me. One question I found very intriguing, which had to do with Over-the-Air updates and how this relates to CM. Over-the-Air updates are software updates that are sent to the product wirelessly to update the firmware, operating system, or system settings/parameters for instance. This has… Read More »Software Over-the-Air Updates and CM