Windows Endpoint Security Summit: Microsoft and CrowdStrike Unite to Protect Critical Infrastructure

by do son · August 26, 2024

Following a significant global outage of Microsoft services caused by an internal CrowdStrike verifier error, which rendered approximately 8.5 million Windows devices unusable, Microsoft has announced a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit to be held on September 10th at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The focus of the meeting will be on how the industry can learn from the impacts of the CrowdStrike incident in July this year and the implementation of relevant security measures in response.

The meeting will feature representatives from Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and other network and computer security firms, who will discuss lessons learned from the recent incident and explore strategies and safety protocols for dealing with similar scenarios in the future.

In the previous CrowdStrike update error, the root cause was a mistake in a data set of approximately 40KB that, despite the error, passed through CrowdStrike’s service verification. This led to a malfunction of CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor threat detection tool, resulting in blue screen crashes in the Windows operating system.

The erroneous update affected several major airlines, including American Airlines, United Airlines, Tigerair Taiwan, Jetstar, and Scoot. The malfunction also disrupted the operation of numerous Windows devices globally.

During the upcoming Microsoft meeting, the emphasis will be on discussing solutions to prevent similar occurrences in the future, such as verifying applications without causing system crashes and considering the use of more secure programming languages for developing application services.