At the industry event that will take place in September, attendees will debate the most effective ways to enhance the security of Windows and prevent another computer disaster.
Following the CrowdStrike computer shutdown that occurred in July, Microsoft has announced that it would be hosting a special conference in September to examine the lessons and security measures that the industry may take away from the incidents. It is planned that the Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit will take place on September 10 at the headquarters of Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
In addition to representatives from CrowdStrike and Microsoft, the event will also include representatives from other cyber and computer security organizations. The participants are going to investigate developments in the practices of the sector as well as the utilization of applications that can prevent future computer interruptions.
A member of the executive team who talked to CNBC on the condition of anonymity stated that one of the topics that will be discussed at the conference will be the utilization of programs that rely more on the user mode of Windows rather than the kernel mode. The outage that happened in July was caused by the fact that Crowdstrike’s agent was operating in kernel mode, which is a mode in which the central processor unit grants software complete access to a system’s resources and machinery. Applications that are running in user mode are more insular, which means they are unable to bring down other systems.
Additionally, the attendees will discuss the implementation of eBPF technology into systems in order to check programs without causing crashes that happen across the entire system. The conference will also include discussions on the utilization of safer programming languages such as Rust, which is an alternative to programming languages such as C or C++.
CrowdStrike has identified erroneous testing software that was included in an update as the root cause of the incident that began on July 19 and resulted in the shutdown of 8.5 million Windows devices. The shutdown generates “blue screens of death” for the computer systems of corporations, airlines, and financial institutions all across the world.