Edsby insulated from CrowdStrike outage

Edsby systems worldwide are unaffected by systems taken down today by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

The widespread outage has disrupted flights, banks, media companies, emergency services and others around the world. Disruptions occurred when cloud security provider CrowdStrike applied an upgrade overnight which began crashing Microsoft systems. The provider’s fix is still making its way to affected systems.

Some are calling today’s problems the largest IT outage in history.

Edsby is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure network worldwide, but no Edsby services have been affected. Edsby’s services are protected by other means than CrowdStrike.

Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries.