The CrowdStrike Lesson: Security vs Operational Risk
What the world doesn’t need right now is another CrowdStrike hot take… so here’s mine. I’m not here to throw any more at CrowdStrike. They’ve had enough. There was a mistake with big impact.1 It happens. There is a lesson to be learnt though: every security control carries a tradeoff, and in this case it’s operational risk. But this recent event serves to remind us. We cannot just blindly push security controls; there are tradeoffs which must be understood. ...