CrowdStrike Strikes the World - a Technical Analysis

Speaker: Ruth Schmidt, PhD, MBA, was the program manager of the business mailer payment systems at the United States Postal Service. She has been involved in information security design, testing, and implementation for over 20 years. She is certified as a Project Management Professional and a Program Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP, from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. ISC2.

The CrowdStrike cybersecurity Falcon platform update on July 19, 2024, caused the largest IT outage in the history of the world. The estimated cost of this outage is now over $5 billion. Ruth Schmidt will show how CrowdStrike and other companies offering cybersecurity products could improve product technical design, testing and roll out procedures to prevent or minimize the impact of future outages. She will explore how client companies can prevent outages through testing, acceptance, and contingency processes.