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-9.1: Ensure all account types are uniquely authenticated

Standards Group:
YALE-MSS-9: Authentication and Authorization

YALE-MSS-9.1: Ensure all account types are uniquely authenticated

Low Risk Endpoint Required Moderate Risk Endpoint Required High Risk Endpoint Required Low Risk Server Required Moderate Risk Server Required High Risk Server Required Low Risk Mobile Device Required Moderate Risk Mobile Device Required High Risk Mobile Device Required Low Risk Network Printer Required Moderate Risk Network Printer Required High Risk Network Printer Required

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Authentication verifies the identity of a user, process, or device.

This control applies to user accounts, administrative accounts, and service accounts.

User accounts grant individuals non-privileged access to a system.

Administrative accounts grant individuals privileged access to a system.

Service accounts run applications or services.

Shared accounts are not permitted.

Service accounts must not be used on multiple systems.