What do we know about the 'Craoud Strike', which has caused one of the biggest crashes in the history of the Internet?
Within a few hours, the company “Kraoud Strike”, known only to electronic security experts and directors of information technology divisions, became the most important topic in news headlines, after causing a malfunction that described experts as one of the largest internet collapse in history. Since this morning, dozens of large entities have announced their services to various crashes, including, but not limited to, “Azor”, which is the cloud computing services of “Microsoft”, the London Stock Exchange, “McDonald’s” and “United Airlines”, as well as the failure of airport services at many airports. What is “Craod Strike”, and how did you cause this great holiday? Kraoud Strike .. The Genesis “Kraoud Strike” is an electronic security services enterprise founded in 2011 in the US state of Texas. The founder and executive director, George Cartis, who previously worked in ‘McAfee’ for electronic security, and Kotz previously said at press meetings that he was frustrated by the ancient methods of electronic security, which mostly focuses on the analysis of computer virus codes, and that he wants to analyze a new style that focuses more on the pyrate method and criminals. Systems. When the company was founded, it included a number of technical experts, as well as former US security services officials such as the FBI. And in 2013, the company launched its main product, the “Falcon” platform, divided an integrated security service into three types. The first type is the security of the ‘endpoints’, that is, the protection of the organization’s devices, such as telephones and mobile computers, through antiviral software and others. The second type is public security services, such as periodic survey, continuous search for weaknesses and regular assurance of devices. The third type is information insurance by analyzing the latest types of viruses and ensuring that its clients are equipped to confront them. The distribution over time, the services provided by the “Falcon” has also expanded and developed, also to include the testing of companies’ ability to face breakthroughs, the urgent response to hacking accidents and others. ‘Craoud Strike’ could monitor a large number of important electronic breakthroughs. ‘Kraud Strike’ helped reveal the identity of the hackers who gained sensitive data from ‘Sony’ in 2014 and to prove their connection with North Korea, and revealed other major activities and tracked its offenders from China and Russia. ‘Kraoud Strike’ attracted ‘Google’ and a number of daring capital funds in successive rounds, which printed the company’s value to around 3 billion in 2019, and participated in these rounds of major investment entities, including ‘Google’, the year in which its shares were offered on the New York stock exchange, and about $ 612 million. Why does the falcon have out? The most important point of “Kraud Strike” was the same as the weakness that caused the last problem. The company focused on the extreme ease of using its services, compared to competitors. To achieve this, Kraoud Strike relied on woolly computed services early. Instead of using customers to install servers in their headquarters and download complicated programs on their devices, with the cost and technical complications it carries, ‘Kraoud strike’ provided an easy way to communicate between its customer systems and the ‘falcon’ platform. With this, the platform is registered with everything that happens on the customer network, analyze data and monitoring of breakthroughs, without the customer’s need to drive extra devices. The customer can also add new services and subscribe to different types of products, easy and easy, similar to updating the cellphone connection package, for example. The Falcon cliff list included hundreds of major brands in all sectors. But how does the customer network call the Falcon platform? ‘Kraud Strike’ provided a very simple point of contact with the name ‘Falcon Sensor’, linked to the company’s chief server. This sensor collects all information about customer network, such as devices on the Internet, memory occupancy rate and dozens of other operations. The company boasted that this sensor could be installed within less than 5 minutes, and once installed, it only needed a little electricity and internet connection, but it could constantly connect the customer network and the “falcon” platform with massive capabilities. But it also means that one holiday at this point of communication is enough to stop all security services completely from the network. According to the email Craoud Sent to his clients, there is a technical defect that occurred during the update of the sensor, which was necessarily the result of complete paralysis of hundreds of networks while she stopped working as soon as she realized that she had lost contact with the protection system. The future a few weeks ago, Bloomberg published an optimistic analysis of the performance of “Craoud Strike”, focusing on the launch of its latest products, “Charlotte Eye”, a obstetrician platform for artificial intelligence that helps clients analyze data and answer their questions and the time needed to perform safety examinations. ‘Bloomberg’ analysts said the company outperformed its competitors in the electronic safety sector, and noted that the expansion of ‘Kraoud strike’ in adding new products, such as securing the confirmation of identities, qualifies to obtain a portion of the cake for which traditional security companies accounted for. Bloomberg, who commented on the performance of the company in the first quarter of 2024, said he was on his way to achieve $ 10 billion of repeated annual turnover, describing it as the most famous face of the integrated security services style. However, the “Bloomberg” analysts published a brief remark this morning, saying that today’s incident can push some companies to rethink the full dependence on cloud services, and expect the incident to affect the company’s profit this year, and its future requests in 2025.