In a statement released by the company, it was reminded that CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update on July 18 that began to affect information technology systems globally.
It was stated in the statement that although this was not a Microsoft incident, it affected its ecosystem, and that the company has been in constant communication with its customers, CrowdStrike and external developers to gather information and accelerate solutions since the beginning of the incident.
"We currently estimate that the CrowdStrike update has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, less than one percent of all Windows machines," the statement said, noting that while software updates occasionally cause problems, significant events such as CrowdStrike are rare.
The statement pointed out that although the percentage is small, the broad economic and social impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by organizations that run many critical services, and noted that this event reveals the interconnected nature of the vast ecosystem of global cloud providers, software platforms, security and other software providers and customers.
The global software problem, which affected many sectors due to the disconnect between the update of CrowdStrike, which provides cyber security services to Microsoft, and the Microsoft operating system, negatively affected life in many parts of the world yesterday.
