ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions, a CSPi business, offers solutions to prevent flaws in cloud-based updates from taking down critical infrastructure. According to a CrowdStrike report, a “flaw in the update process” appears to be the cause of a massive global outage of systems running on the Windows platform on July 19, 2024.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/07/19/crowdstrike-windows-outage-what-happened-and-what-to-do-next/
Companies using AZT PROTECT can prevent both malicious code and flawed updates from taking down critical systems: untested updates will not become active on users’ systems.
It has become standard for IT application and cybersecurity vendors to send updates directly to their applications. Unfortunately, as this incident has shown, very few customers test these updates and allow them to update automatically.
Whether intentional or not, untested supply chain updates can wreak more havoc on critical systems than most cyber attacks. If a system update could cause outages and put lives at risk, don’t deploy the update without some validation testing. The same goes for servers that run critical business processes.
AZT PROTECT ensures that even if such updates are distributed to endpoints, they are not automatically implemented until they have been verified as “non-harmful.”
AZT PROTECT is an easy-to-deploy, lightweight agent that can be used in conjunction with CrowdStrike and other protection systems to catch advanced attacks that these systems miss, as well as ensure proper IT and OT software update procedures are in place to prevent such disasters.
Learn more: ARIA AZT PROTECT
