A global CrowdStrike outage caused disruptions in some state government systems and devices. This incident highlighted the vulnerability of relying on external services for critical operations. State governments must ensure that they have robust backup plans in place to mitigate the impact of such outages.
The CrowdStrike outage affected various state government systems and devices, disrupting important functions such as data security and threat detection. This outage serves as a wake-up call for state governments to reevaluate their reliance on third-party services for essential operations. It is crucial for state governments to have contingency plans in place to prevent similar disruptions in the future.
The Iowa Department of Management’s Division of Information Technology operates a 24/7 security operations center. At approximately 12:30 a.m. today, the security center identified the CrowdStrike error, and a temporary fix was applied at 1:04 a.m. At approximately 1:30 a.m., a formal fix from CrowdStrike was issued. The quick action by the security team limited the initial impact of the outage to approximately 1,400 servers and 3,300 workstations, or less than 20 percent of all devices across executive branch departments.
IT staff are working now to restore all systems and devices and will continue to do so around the clock. It’s anticipated that systems will be fully restored over the weekend.
People pining for a venti caramel macchiato or a grande frozen mango dragonfruit lemonade found Friday that they couldn’t order ahead from Starbucks online or with their cellphones Friday.
The coffee shop chain apologized for the problem and said it was serving customers in “a vast majority” of its stores and drive-thrus.
The outage was caused by a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This was not a cyberattack.
We are working closely with impacted customers and partners to ensure that all systems are restored, so you can deliver the services your customers rely on.
CrowdStrike is operating normally, and this issue does not affect our Falcon platform systems. There is no impact to any protection if the Falcon sensor is installed. Falcon Complete and Falcon OverWatch services are not disrupted.
Meanwhile, the international Windows outage quickly became the most talked-about subject on Twitter/X, whose artificial intelligence bots collated a series of parody posts from cybersecurity professionals pretending to be on their first week of work at Crowdstrike. Incredibly,Twitter/X’s AI summarized these sarcastic posts into a sunny, can-do story about Crowdstrike that was promoted as the top discussion on Twitter this morning.
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