Today, a major incident happened when a software update deployed to Cloudstrike’s Falcon software. This software is mostly installed on windows VMs, windows clients and windows OS. This bug resulted to application or VMs to get stuck in restart phase. The affected component is CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software, as per Microsoft, which affected Windows 365 Cloud PCs.
This impacted major airlines in USA, call center service and stock exchange firm in UK. As per the update at the time I am writing this article
Interested fact to know in coming days?
- Was the new patch not tested under development phase?
- Was it not deployed to some sandbox or UAT environments to ensure a bug free update?