Some tech experts say that Microsoft made a mistake allowing security vendors such as CrowdStrike into the deeper recesses of its system
Microsoft's crash on July 19th was due to an update pushed out by one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies, CrowdStrike.Matt Holland is the chief executive and founder of Field Effect, a global cybersecurity solution provider based in Ottawa. He started his career with the Canadian Security Establishment .
This was obviously an unacceptable event for the planet, with the cost in downtime estimated at billions of dollars and the impact on human lives immeasurable.First, let me explain what a kernel is. A kernel is the portion of an operating system where highly privileged, protected instructions reside, typically constituting the bulk of the operating system.
Pulling security vendors out of the Windows kernel is a rational reaction given the impact of the CrowdStrike incident – but it’s a surface-level reaction that won’t have the outcome that supporters think it will.Before founding my own cybersecurity firm, I was with Canada’s digital intelligence agency, part of a world-class team that built incredible offensive capabilities that could quite literally hack into almost any server, desktop or mobile phone on the planet.
Windows grants security vendors this kernel access, enabling their ability to observe and defend. If we remove security vendors’ kernel access, those types of attacks/exploits would be almost impossible to detect and defend against.
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