Microsoft, Cyber Firms to Meet on Fixes After CrowdStrike Crash
- Content updates, kernels are focus for security vendors
- Global IT issue ensnared Windows computers, sparking concern
The Microsoft Corp. Windows Recovery screen displayed at John F. Kennedy International Airport n New York, on July 19.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergMicrosoft Corp. is planning a meeting next month with cybersecurity companies that operate at the core of its Windows systems to discuss ways in which they can keep last month’s worldwide computer crash from happening again.
Cyber companies — including CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the firm that rolled out a faulty content update last month that led to widespread outages of Windows systems globally — will meet with Microsoft on Sept. 10 at its headquarters in suburban Seattle, the tech giant said. They are scheduled to discuss best practices on deploying updates on Windows computers and whether security firms should continue to have access to the kernel — or core — of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.