ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions, a CSPi business, offers a solution to help avoid flawed cloud-based updates from creating critical infrastructure outages. A “flawed update process” on July 19th, 2024, is apparently to blame for the massive worldwide outage of systems running on Windows platforms as reported by CrowdStrike.
Companies using AZT PROTECT can prevent both malicious code as well as flawed updates from taking critical systems down. Untested updates do not become active on user's systems.
It has become the norm for IT application and cybersecurity vendors to send updates directly to their applications. Unfortunately, as this incident has demonstrated, few customers test these updates and just allow them to update automatically.
Whether intentional or not, untested supply chain updates can wreak more havoc on critical systems than most cyberattacks. If an update to a system puts lives in danger due to an outage, it should not be deployed without some form of verification test. The same goes for servers running any critical business process.
AZT PROTECT can ensure that such updates — even if distributed to the endpoints — are not automatically implemented until they are verified to “do no harm”.
AZT PROTECT is a simple-to-deploy, lightweight agent that can deploy alongside CrowdStrike or other protection systems and not only catches the sophisticated attacks that they miss, but also can ensure IT and OT software update procedures are properly enforced avoiding such disasters.
To learn more: ARIA AZT PROTECT
