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We are still seeing large impacts in the 5th day of the Crowdstrike Bad Update debacle. While the first order effect of taking >8 million devices offline were significant for airlines, hospitals, some 911 call centers, I'm increasingly concerned about the longer-term 2nd and 3rd order effects that we are likely to see. Immediately, we have seen an increase in attacks leveraging the widespread news of this event. Users will be targeted to grant access, share data, or expose credentials in the wake of this event. Please be vigilant and aware of this active risk. In the medium term, organizations will seek to recoup losses or operations disruption from their cyberliability insurance providers. We'll see how successful these claims are. In the long term, organizations may be skeptical of additional security protections that are suggested by insurance providers and others, leaving them vulnerable to future attacks. I'm thankful that we are not a Crowdstrike partner, but I'm concerned about the reputational damage done to the cybersecurity industry as a whole. The benefits of the size and scale of these large players also presents a too-big-to-fail problem. We must all choose our vendor partners wisely. We compiled our thoughts to our clients this week in this post, but some friends asked me for my overall take (laid out above). https://lnkd.in/e_M4d7AH