> Read that: “less than 1% of the machines were impacted”. Does this mean that CrowdStrike does have a staged rollout in which they push configuration changes to just a subset of 1% of the machines worldwide?
According to their post-mortem, only machines that were online between 4:09 and 5:27 UTC were affected, until it was pulled. So, in the US, it would only affect machines that were on between 9 PM and 1:30 AM (depending on time zone). If you shut off your work computer every night, you'd be saved.
Nicely written and explained!
> Read that: “less than 1% of the machines were impacted”. Does this mean that CrowdStrike does have a staged rollout in which they push configuration changes to just a subset of 1% of the machines worldwide?
According to their post-mortem, only machines that were online between 4:09 and 5:27 UTC were affected, until it was pulled. So, in the US, it would only affect machines that were on between 9 PM and 1:30 AM (depending on time zone). If you shut off your work computer every night, you'd be saved.