Microsoft on Thursday shared an update on the progress of its resiliency initiative, triggered by the highly disruptive CrowdStrike incident that occurred last year.
In July 2024, organizations around the world suffered significant service outages after many of their Windows computers that had been running security software from CrowdStrike crashed.
The crash was caused by an improperly tested update pushed out by CrowdStrike to customers’ machines, and the significant impact was the result of the use of kernel drivers, which are commonly leveraged by cybersecurity products in the Windows ecosystem for enhanced detection and response capabilities.
Microsoft is moving antivirus programs from running at kernel level
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