CrowdStrike Outage: Lessons Learned for SAP Solutions
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Key Takeaways
⇨ The fallout of the Microsoft's worldwide systems outage has far-reaching consequences for cybersecurity which has affected 8.5 million devices powered by Microsoft Windows operating systems
⇨ The cause of the outage is a corrupted update for an agent used for the Falcon security platform from CrowdStrike.
⇨ Layer Seven Security’s Cybersecurity Extension for SAP protects SAP solutions from advanced persistent threats without the use of kernel-level agents or programs.
The recent Microsoft operating systems outage has highlighted significant concerns for global cybersecurity systems. This incident underscores the challenges in development and release management procedures, as it’s impractical to test updates against every possible scenario. Historical issues, like CrowdStrike updates causing crashes in SAP BusinessObjects, illustrate these challenges. The outage raises questions about software design and inadequate parameter validation by the Falcon agent, which might have prevented system crashes. Outages affecting business-critical SAP solutions are particularly severe. SAP customers should scrutinize third-party agents and programs operating in kernel mode on SAP hosts, especially those updated automatically without customer input. In contrast, Layer Seven Security’s Cybersecurity Extension for SAP offers protection without kernel-level agents, operating in user mode to monitor and secure SAP applications, databases, and operating systems.
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