Call a Doctor! –Blue Screen Lessons Learned

Companies worldwide grappled on Friday with what Troy Hunt, famously described as “the largest IT outage in history,” caused by a faulty sensor configuration update that got pushed to Microsoft by the cyber-security giant, CrowdStrike, resulting in a $31 billion loss in market capitalization for the company.

Specific information about the bug is not yet publicly available, but this video presents 12 top suspects, including two primary ones. From there, it focuses on lessons learned, with the help of a live interview with fractional CTO and senior solutions architect, Dave Stern, who is the author of the recent best-selling book Hackproof Your Startup.