ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions, a CSPi business, offers a solution to help avoid flawed cloud-based updates from creating critical infrastructure outages. A “flawed update process” on July 19th, 2024, is apparently to blame for the massive worldwide outage of systems running on Windows platforms as reported by CrowdStrike. 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 as well as flawed updates from taking critical systems down. Untested updates do not become active on user's systems. Whether intentional or not, untested supply chain updates can wreak more havoc on critical systems than most cyberattacks.

Source: Forbes July 22, 2024 16:58 UTC