this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate the callback to #303.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll be honest I thought it was just this one recaptioned. Thank you for pointing it out that they are messing around in different ways

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

"We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold." Is the alt text. I thought it was the same too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I even thought about a crowd strike version of #303 today too

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago

Pretty much what happens when you knock out something important

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Me, the only sysadmin with access to the data center and AD: "I'm drowning!"

ISR team that selected Crowdstrike: " were going to the coffee shop, let us know when it's back up"

Today has been a nightmare of stupid problems

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope you guys run a lessons learned after it all. Go ahead and roll your eyes, but reflecting on prior performance can have a huge impact for the future. It shouldn’t all come down to you in the end, and that’s okay.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Every org worth their weight will be doing a root cause analysis after this. So many lessons learned. We were impacted very minimally and only through external vendors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Consider yourself lucky!