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Outages can disrupt security tools and critical services, showing how failures in infrastructure, vendors, or recovery plans affect cyber resilience.

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Outage is a period when a system, network, application, or online service is unavailable or cannot perform its intended function. It may be planned maintenance or an unplanned disruption caused by equipment or software failure, misconfiguration, a dependency problem, natural hazards, or a denial-of-service attack. The tag generally concerns availability incidents, not every performance issue or security breach.

For security practitioners, an outage requires determining whether malicious activity contributed to the disruption while preserving relevant logs, network telemetry, and system state for investigation. Defenses include capacity planning, segmented and redundant architecture, tested failover and recovery procedures, and controls that limit the effect of DDoS traffic or compromised dependencies. Emergency changes made during recovery should be authorized and recorded, since they can create new vulnerabilities or affect data integrity. Clear incident ownership and communications help coordinate technical response without obscuring the cause or scope.

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Bank Info Security 1 year, 10 months ago

ISMG Editors: CrowdStrike Competitors Analyze Outage, Impact

Also: UN Convention Against Cybercrime Efforts; Serving SMBs' Cybersecurity NeedsIn the latest weekly update, Information Security Media Group editors discussed how CrowdStrike's competitors are responding to its outage, why security vendors want to serve the unique needs of SMB organizations and the status of U.N. efforts to develop a treaty designed to combat cybercrime.

More from Bank Info Security 31 Aug 2024, 3:00 a.m. Crowdstrike Cybercrime Outage
Bank Info Security 1 year, 10 months ago

CrowdStrike Debuts Safeguards, Seeks to Blunt Outage Impact

CEO George Kurtz on New Recovery Techniques and Controls Implemented Post-IncidentCEO George Kurtz said CrowdStrike has blunted the business impact from the massive July 19 outage and is implementing changes to prevent a repeat occurrence. CrowdStrike is boosting the resilience of its Falcon platform through improved content visibility and control and enhanced quality assurance.

More from Bank Info Security 29 Aug 2024, 6:30 p.m. Crowdstrike Enhancement Incident Outage

CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps…but not anyone would can tell you what happened op-ed Microsoft will host a security summit next month with CrowdStrike and other "key" endpoint security partners joining the fun — and during which the CrowdStrike-induced outage that borked millions of Windows machines will undoubtedly be a top-line agenda item. …

More from The Register 29 Aug 2024, 10:20 a.m. Crowdstrike Endpoint Security Microsoft Outage

Unprotected database with 12 years of biz records yanked offline Exclusive Nearly 2.7 TB of sensitive data — 31.5 million invoices, contracts, HIPPA patient consent forms, and other business documents regarding numerous companies across industries — has been exposed to the public internet in a non-password protected database for an unknown amount of time.…

More from The Register 27 Aug 2024, 1:00 a.m. Database Exposure Outage