Crowdstrike Outage Cybersecurity

Recently, a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a worldwide technical outage. The outage mostly impacted Windows systems. CrowdStrike confirmed this was a technical issue and not a cybersecurity attack. However, we should be aware of how cybercriminals will use this outage to their advantage.

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YALE-MSS-5.4: Ensure all software is actively supported by a vendor or open-source project

Standards Group:
YALE-MSS-5: Software Security

YALE-MSS-5.4: Ensure all software is actively supported by a vendor or open-source project

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Implement a plan to replace software before it goes out of support. This may include replacing hardware to run supported software.

Ensure all software is actively supported by a vendor, open-source project, or Yale.

Unsupported software no longer receives updates, significantly increasing the risk of a security incident.