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-7.6: All network traffic must use a strong, industry-standard encryption method

Standards Group:
YALE-MSS-7: Data Protection

YALE-MSS-7.6: All network traffic must use a strong, industry-standard encryption method

Low Risk Endpoint Not Required Moderate Risk Endpoint Required High Risk Endpoint Required Low Risk Server Not Required Moderate Risk Server Required High Risk Server Required Low Risk Mobile Device Not Required Moderate Risk Mobile Device Required High Risk Mobile Device Required Low Risk Network Printer Not Required Moderate Risk Network Printer Required High Risk Network Printer Required

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Common ways to accomplish this include:

  • using HTTPS for web traffic
  • using client-side VPNs
  • encrypting data before transmission