CrowdStrike

“Like most of you, I don't use antivirus software and haven't for years. Modern Macs (and PCs) are pretty secure by default.However, with the rise of AI-assisted exploits/phishing and supply chain attacks, I've been reconsidering. We recently had an incident at work where CrowdStr...”

“I love crowdstrike, its amazing. However, its Linux agent isn't the best. I created an open-source Linux EDR solution and I loved it. So I wanted to know why aren't Crowdstrike copying it, collobarating with it or just using it? I think it can dramatically improve the Linux agent...”

“Corporate mandate to use windows. Crowdstrike scans make doing anything on the command line a non-starter. For example, adding mise to my powershell prompt adds multiple seconds! to each powershell command execution... it's just not even feasible at that point to work in Windows....”

“Well, the problem is that we train them to solve problems and follow instructions given, and so if you ask them to do something and they work through the logic and figure that the easiest way is to do something else like delete the production database, if they have access to do s...”

“Okay sorry to hear that. Sounds like Crowdstrike sucked for many reasons, then. I have never ran it or even seen that myself.The OS however I have used for 23 years. I know it quite well and it's robust.”