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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 06:45:57 JST nixCraft 🐧

   The CrowdStrike IT outage is a good reminder that if you don't have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place, there will be consequences. There will be many meetings and discussions about the need for DR, but by the end of the year, it will likely be forgotten amidst the usual job cuts, new priorities, and questions about IT budgets. This cycle will continue until another IT outage strikes. I speak the truth and nothing else. If I'm wrong, correct me below. #sysadmin #IT

   • Bot4Sale (bot4sale@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 06:53:50 JST Bot4Sale

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     @nixCraft Also, don't use products that tell you the damage they're going to do.

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   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:14:18 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     As CTO of a major fintech firm ACME Corp, this is my disaster recovery plan. Oh, you expected me to hire more staff and build an actual plan? That's adorable. Perhaps you'd also like a unicorn to handle our cybersecurity? 😉

   • MyYeeHaa (myyeehaa@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:16:17 JST MyYeeHaa

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     @nixCraft Amusingly, it's misspelled. Possibly indicating how much effort went into it?

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:22:50 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • MyYeeHaa

     @MyYeeHaa haha. sharp observation. it is good that some people still get humour

   • ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:56:50 JST ocdtrekkie

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     @nixCraft It's complicated because this is... not a scenario you'd generally plan for. There's a good chance you wanted to protect your disaster recovery plan and put CrowdStrike on your backup infrastructure!

   • xs4me2 (xs4me2@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 09:17:19 JST xs4me2

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     @nixCraft

     I guess you are right…

   • johnpiers (farstrider@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 09:17:35 JST johnpiers

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     @nixCraft

     Here you go.

   • Bryce Belcher (belch@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:19:32 JST Bryce Belcher

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     @nixCraft You also need a secondary service to use, and not just relying on one security service. If one service goes down, then if you had another security service, the best case scenario is it wouldn't be as impactful like it has been.

   • The Keymaker (thekeymaker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:24:09 JST The Keymaker

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     @nixCraft Managers are reactive, not proactive. If you want them to get excited about a disaster plan you have to burn down the building across the street. This is why this was going to happen no matter what -- humans suck.

   • kiwilinux (kiwilinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:46:30 JST kiwilinux

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     @nixCraft there will be some dead reckoning here. This is not just one person but a whole team. who though this was a good thing? It will be a blood bath? Did they employ people on merit, those with the skills? this type of screw up is unforgivable. But of course a certain tech journalist who's name has been banned on Mastodon. He says even Linux and mac aren't immune to this. And we have had a close call with the xz hack.

   • Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 (catavz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 13:50:59 JST Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶

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     • MyYeeHaa

     @nixCraft @MyYeeHaa Also, it was not opened. But the glass is full.

   • Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:00:39 JST Bob Thomson

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     @nixCraft also, like backups that are never tested for recovery, a DR plan that never gets tested is not much better than not having any plan.

   • Chris Godwin (chrisgodwin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:23:51 JST Chris Godwin

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     @nixCraft
     I know some places whose DR plan is "it's on the cloud so it's fine because if one computer goes wrong the others can still access the cloud"

     Yeah...

   • bazcurtis (bazcurtis@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 17:47:27 JST bazcurtis

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     @nixCraft I was thinking about this. Wouldn’t the DR systems also be protected by CrowdStrike and have the same issue.

   • mikeTesteLinux (miketestelinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 04:38:02 JST mikeTesteLinux

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     @nixCraft O man, I enjoy the picture, that just too perfect 😂 I feel many organizations around the world have that recovery strategy 😂 😂