IT Department's Plan

the good news is that it does make windows more secure. you cant hack something that has crashed.

The fact that random companies like Crowdstrike have kernel drivers in millions of computers they they ship remotely is a security risk in and of itself. We're lucky crowdstrike just shipped a bug that crashes computers, other companies could have shipped a lot worse.

I'd laugh if this wasn't affecting me directly.

The problem is the blind trust of these "vendors"

Decentralize control

I really don't want to be the guy responsible for this fuck up

Also: don't trust your employees to boot into safe mode.
Trust a 3rd party to freely install system level files at any time.

I knew how to fix the computers at work today in the morning, but we couldn't get through to the help desk to get the bit locker codes for each computer until near the end of the day.

And on this day, I’m glad I only support an air-gapped Unix system.

More like ClownStrike.

I'm pretty sure Windows is plenty secure. It isn't private or usercentric but of on a security perspective it isn't bad.

Linux has plenty of security problems just like any OS

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way...

Ha guess why I'm on lemmy right now.

They stop breaches if nothing's turned on. Roll safe (mode)

Shit Happens

Unfortunately, heads are going to roll, and it’ll probably be the little guy who gets the blame.

I'm actually curious to know, how is Linux inherently more secure than windows?

MS’s built-in security platform is top tier also. Some companies like alternative products.

If only our vendors made Linux versions of their systems and regulators would approve them or the OS but no, my regulators only allow windows and approved software that they verify the hashes of every few months for changes

Yeah, time to switch from CrowdStrike to SolarWinds...

I am so lucky I didn't update my PC