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𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁 Remember the recent Crowdstrike outage caused by a faulty software update? We all felt the sting of disrupted workflows. But how can we prevent similar disasters from happening again? A recent TechCrunch article explores this crucial question. Here's a breakdown of key takeaways: - Testing is King: Thorough testing, including stress testing and edge-case scenarios, is paramount before deploying updates. Don't skip this crucial step! - Phrased Rollout: Consider a staged rollout, starting with a smaller group to identify and address any bugs before wider deployment. - Communication is Key: Keep users informed throughout the process. Clear communication builds trust and minimizes frustration. - Rollback Strategy: Have a clear plan in place to revert to a previous version if necessary. Don't get caught flat-footed! By following these steps, software developers can significantly reduce the risk of a catastrophic update failure. Have you ever experienced a bad software update? Share your story in the comments! Source: Tech Crunch #SoftwareUpdates #Crowdstrike #TechCrunch #SoftwareDevelopment

Woohoo! One of the biggest oncallscheduler.com customers has determined that it lives up to their compliance and security requirements. Honestly, we must confess we weren't completely sure that would be the case. The world's largest software companies have a lot of compliance and security requirements, for good reasons, and it can be difficult for a small software company like TimeWeSp to live up to all those. We think oncallscheduler.com got the thumbs up because * The product has a strong commitment to customer privacy. It's designed to know as little about our customers as possible, and a strong privacy policy committing to never use that little information in irresponsible or sleezy ways. * It offers customers with extreme security requirements the ability to integrate with it through the REST API, which puts the security of any integration with other company systems in the customer's hands. * The benefits of the product are strong and clear to all the teams which use it, which means the time spent on a compliance and security review is well worth it. #Compliance #Security

There has been lot of noise in the market post Crowdstrike fiasco. There have been many posts talking about Canary deployment and wondering why such a large organisation perhaps did not follow canary. For those who handle software distribution must be looking at this post and shaking their head in disbelief because software distribution is a different world than SAAS and B2C releases. The only effective way to solve this is using effective release channels, It may look very simple like canary but its very different . Many of us can relate it to the linux versions released under different channels - nightly builds, alpha, beta, RC, GA and depending on the criticality of the software organizations can subscribe to the respective channel. This allows finer control of the blast radius and allows companies to fine tune the new feature vs stability trade off. In fact we do the same for our own practice at Devtron Inc., which is an distributed software and is hosted within customers infrastructure. We have multiple channels for the release of Devtron and we progress release through the channel as we reach higher and higher confidence interval. In the innermost circle, are the testing environments, second level is our own production server, third level is non-production/sandbox deployments and final level is at the customers using Devtron in production. We also switch customers across channels as they become more mature in their usage of Devtron or they have urgent requirement of particular feature. In past few months we have released this feature for our customers also and many of them have been deploying their softwares to high constraint environments via Devtron Inc. If you have a similar use case we would love to chat and understand whats working and whats not. Bill Brown Shailesh Gogate Prashant Ghildiyal Nishant Kumar Jim Hirschauer #crowdstrike #deployments #devsecops #SDLC

Rolling out software updates in a controlled manner is critical for reliability and sometimes the IT industry gets big reminders of this fact. I'd wager that CrowdStrike will learn from this incident and come out a much stronger company in the long run. Meanwhile, the rest of us can watch and learn from this difficult situation. Controlling software rollouts via release channels in one of the benefits of using Devtron Inc. You can learn more using this link... https://lnkd.in/gwFcvZHz

As we reflect on the recent CrowdStrike outage, which exposed critical flaws in our interconnected software ecosystems, we learned three vital lessons. 1️⃣ The software you build has a direct runtime dependency on the software you do not build. 2️⃣ The software you buy and its “independent updates” are not truly independent.  3️⃣ Your Application’s Dependency Chain includes the software you build, the software you source, and the software you buy. The CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder that your business does not just run on the applications you build and deploy but also depends on other vendors’ software your applications cooperate and interact with. Ultimately, organizations must underscore the urgency of software supply chain management to avert similar disruptions. Read our blog for our detailed insights on the incident: Three Lessons If You Are CrowdStruck (And Even If You Are Not) https://lnkd.in/gjnUyuWM Let us know in the comments if there are any other lessons or insights to share around this topic. #SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity #CrowdStrike #TechLessons #SoftwareResilience #Lineaje

Stop Wasting Time on Manual Security Tasks: Automate Like a Pro with Blink Ops Security teams are constantly bombarded with alerts and manual tasks. Wouldn't it be amazing to automate the repetitive stuff and free up your team to focus on strategic initiatives? Imagine simply writing a text prompt, and Blink Copilot transforms it into a sophisticated automated workflow! In this video, Blink Ops demonstrates how Blink Copilot tackles a critical security scenario: Isolating an infected device with CrowdStrike upon a new alert. With Blink Ops, you can: 🔹 Respond to threats in seconds, not hours. No more wasting time crafting manual workflows. Blink Copilot streamlines your incident response with instant automation. 🔹Simplify complex tasks across 300+ integrations. From CrowdStrike and Okta to AWS and GitHub, Blink Ops connects seamlessly with your existing security and IT tools. 🔹Empower security professionals of all skill levels. Blink Ops uses plain language prompts, making automation accessible even without coding experience. Get it done in a Blink. Secure your future with Blink Ops. Justine Cross Leor Golan Senobia Jones Lex Moon

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The global IT outage on Friday, July 19, highlighted several critical issues: 1. The need for robust guardrails around software such as Crowdstrike, operating at the OS kernel level.    2. Importance of Business Continuity Plans for organizations.    3. Necessity for effective Rollback Plans during software releases.    4. Adoption of Canary releases to safely introduce new features to a subset of users for initial testing.    5. Enhancing software testing practices to prevent such incidents.    6. Concerns over global reliance on Microsoft, which severely impacted major functions worldwide. #CrowdStrikeITOutage #BusinessContinuityPlans #RollbackPlans

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