Microsoft’s reputation also suffered from the global IT shutdown that occurred on July 19 due to a faulty update by the cyber security company CrowdStrike. In the past month, the Redmond giant held talks with several partners about the security procedures surrounding the operating system, reports the CNBC.
Although Microsoft was not directly responsible for the bug, they have already announced that they will be making major changes to Windows. Little is known about the details for now, but at a security conference on September 10, the company will detail the most important information to the main industry players, cyber security companies and government representatives.
One solution to this could be a technology called eBPF, which can check the correctness and functionality of extensions built into the core of the operating system even before running. The use of the memory-safe Rust programming language, which has been more and more advocated in the recent period, was also raised, which the Redmond company has been using more actively for some time, but the case can speed up the efforts, adds the hwsw.
According to insiders, Microsoft is not ruling out blocking access to the Windows kernel entirely, but this move could have more drastic consequences, as competitors may worry that their software will be at a disadvantage against the company’s internal security products, including versus Microsoft Defender.
The July 19 outage caused billions of dollars in damage, and shareholders even filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, alleging that the cybersecurity company misled them and failed to provide adequate information about the risk of an incident of this magnitude. One of the biggest victims, Delta Airlines, wants compensation, because according to estimates, the incident caused them a loss of around 500 million dollars.
2024-08-26 14:16:40