The company plans to hold a special conference in September to discuss lessons the industry can learn from CrowdStrike and security practices. The Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit is scheduled for September 10 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
The event will feature representatives from Microsoft, CrowdStrike and other cyber and computer security companies. Participants will explore changing industry practices and the use of applications that can prevent future computer shutdowns.
One topic on the agenda for the meeting, according to the anonymous person, will be the use of applications that rely heavily on Windows user mode, rather than kernel mode. The July outage was caused because Crowdstrike’s agents were running in kernel mode, where the central processing unit gives the software full access to a system’s resources and hardware. User mode applications are more isolated and cannot take down other systems.
Participants will also discuss implementing eBPF technology in their systems to check programs without causing a system-wide crash. The conference will also discuss the use of safer programming languages such as Rust as an alternative to programming languages such as C and C++.
CrowdStrike blamed the update for the crashes that began on July 19. The shutdowns caused blue screens on systems at banks, airlines and companies around the world.
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