Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:57:06 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <14650d94-4742-6c3f-9c73-33e7468106c5@example.net> Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:57:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="511db2ee6276b0691c01b97fb601d506"; logging-data="3828320"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19is8UzBP+s8XXHG0G8hoef" User-Agent: tin/2.6.1-20211226 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.139 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jZ2rY3maVtN1QKpo7mmjVf9bvfM= Bytes: 3898 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 20/07/2024 14:44, rek2 hispagatos wrote: >> On 2024-07-19, D wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Woozy Song wrote: >>> >>>> Curiously, when I made a post to Reddit linux group, it got deleted >>>> immediately. I thought they would be gloating that Windows got shafted. >>>> >>> >>> I'm gloating! I repeatedly tell a potential customer to change from >>> windows, and I think so far they asked me for an offer and an opinion 3 >>> times (they had 3 security incidents), and yet they have never purchased >>> my services and they keep running into these problems. I'm gloating so >>> much. Sadly I don't think they will ever switch from their beloved >>> Microsoft though. >>> >>> I do use them often as an example of what happens if you have a crappy >>> IT-manager so I do derive benefits from their incompetence though! =) >>> >> >> >> +1 I hope this serves as a lesson. > > No, it wont. > > You dont understan middle management in a company. > The IT managers career is best served by spending shitloads of money > with a company like crowdstrike which offers impressive legal guarantees > in its contracts. > Not by implementing a policy with some 'nerdy operating system' that his > boss doesn't know how to use. And developing an IT department to service > and support it. You can tell those who have never worked with/in/near a large corporate bureaucracy or govt bureaucracy IT department. Those who have never seen behind the curtain believe this will result in some kind of change. Those who have (and it does appear you have) recognize crowdstrike for what it really is (hint, it is not for "securing" the endpoint systems -- that is, at best, a secondary outcome). Crowdstrike's real purpose is to provide the IT bureaucracy with "risk insurance" (i.e., Crowdstrike is really an "insurance plan", even if not presented that way) such that the IT folk can check a checkbox on their quarterly security audit forms that indicates they have "security scanning software" installed. It additionally provides those same IT bureaucracy folks with a CYA such that if they happen to be hacked/exploited, they can CYA and shift blame to Crowdstrike and away from themselves. Any "security" Crowdstrike provides is secondary to this main purpose, that of being an "insurance plan" onto which the IT bureaucracy members can shift blame should some hack occur. So in the end, because the next quarters audit's checkboxes will still require "security scanning software" be installed, when next quarter arrives, and those forms get filled out again, Crowdstrike will still be installed, so those IT folks can check the "blame shifting checkbox" on the audit form and magically become "secure" for another quarter.