will hold a special conference in September to discuss lessons and security measures the industry can take from CrowdStrike. . The Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit will be held on September 10 at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA.
The event will be attended by representatives of Microsoft, CrowdStrike and other cyber and computer security companies. Participants will examine changes in industry practices and the use of software that may prevent future computer shutdowns.
anonymously says that one of the conference’s talking points will be the use of programs that rely more on Windows’ user mode instead of kernel mode. The July outage was caused by Crowdstrike’s agent running in kernel mode, which gives the CPU’s software full access to system resources and hardware. In user mode, apps are more isolated, so they can’t crash other systems.
Attendees will also discuss applying eBPF technology to systems to verify applications without causing system-wide crashes. The conference will also discuss the use of safer programming languages such as Rust as an alternative to programming languages such as C or C++.
CrowdStrike blamed included in an update as the cause of the crash It starts from July 19. The shutdown is causing blue screens of death for banks, airlines and business systems around the world.
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