The CrowdStrike-Microsoft Outage Is Likely To Curtail Auto-Updates. That May Not Be A Good Thing.

Published on July 24, 2024

The massive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage will undoubtedly lead more customers to forgo automatic security updates, but this could create risks of its own.

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