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-7.8: Utilize host Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Standards Group:
YALE-MSS-7: Data Protection

YALE-MSS-7.8: Utilize host Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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

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DLP prevents unintended exfiltration of sensitive data.

Yale's Forcepoint DLP alerts when uploading sensitive data to:

  • External websites
  • External storage devices
  • External email providers

Additional information on Yale's DLP program: