corporate security professionals

Balancing trust and safety: Lessons from the CrowdStrike incident

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Balancing trust and safety: Lessons from the CrowdStrike incident

On July 19, CrowdStrike, one of the largest endpoint security providers, issued an update to Windows servers globally that caused them to enter a “crash loop,” resulting in the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). CrowdStrike explained the issue was caused by a “defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.” The downstream impact of this bug resulted in one of the largest and broadest outages in history. When situations like this occur,…

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73% of security professionals failed to act upon security alerts

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73% of security professionals failed to act upon security alerts

A new report by Coro sheds light on the challenges that cybersecurity professionals are facing in regard to their workload. The report surveyed 500 cybersecurity decision-makers in the United States, all of whom worked for companies with 200 to 2000 employees. The survey focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), finding that many lacked the resources and abilities to properly handle the large volume security alerts received.  In fact, 73% of security professionals in SMEs…

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