Third-Party Reviews: two independent third-party software security vendors have been hired to conduct further Falcon sensor code and end-to-end quality control and release process reviews ...

CrowdStrike is aligning with Microsoft’s demand to reconsider kernel-level access for security vendors after CrowdStrike’s Falcon update sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an ...

Security products like CrowdStrike’s Falcon software have privileged access to those deepest parts of the system to allow it to detect small changes in activity which might be cyber attacks.

One option is to look into a balanced update policy, which considers staggered updates. Software End Users Allow kernel-level access: The reason Falcon Sensor could take down the entire Windows system ...

As for why CrowdStrike let a bad update into the Windows kernel, one reason is that Rapid Response Content updates don’t go through as comprehensive checking procedure as a Falcon sensor update.