Tag: cloudstrike

Attacks on Rackspace calm down

Posted on December 15, 2022 by - News

It appears that attacks on Rackspace’s email service have calmed down since the FBI started investigating.

Rackspace has confirmed that it has restored email service to two-thirds of its customers since the outage was reported nearly two weeks ago. But the company signalled Wednesday that the outage is still impacting thousands of other customers on its Hosted Exchange.

CrowdStrike has confirmed no further attacker activity within Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange environment.

The FBI’s entry into the investigation was first reported by Barron’s, which  reported that “tens of thousands” of clients were ultimately impacted by the attack.

Microsoft security is a leaky lifeboat

Posted on October 13, 2022 by - News

CrowdStrike CEO appears to have got Microsoft all cross when he dubbed its security approach a “leaky lifeboat”.

George Kurtz told the gathered throngs at XChange Best of Breed conference in Atlanta attributed a majority of cyberbreaches to Microsoft products, compared the software behemoth’s total security offerings to a “leaky lifeboat” and its authentication architecture “a mess”.

“The Microsoft environment is the only environment that I know of that you can take a password and just reuse it. Right? And it’s a huge architectural issue. That was in 1999. You can do that today. … You can take those passwords out of memory and basically just do the same technique in 2022. And it’s even worse now because there‘s a hodgepodge of syncing and you know that you have SAML tickets and golden SAML tickets. I mean, it’s a real mess.”

CloudStrike hires Amanda Adams as channel lead

Posted on May 19, 2020 by - News

CrowdStrike has a new channel leader in the UK for Europe.

Amanda Adams is also the Senior Director, European Alliances at CrowdStrike and has worked at Cisco and Tenable. She will be based in London.

Adams said that the European market is a key area for CrowdStrike, ripe as it is for disruption by partners able to use next-generation cybersecurity solutions that stop customer breaches.

“Our partners are our biggest champions and I intend to help us pivot to supporting the MSP and MSSP market with new and exciting programmes.”

CrowdStrike walks away from Cloud distribution

Posted on January 22, 2018 by - News

Hacker typing on a laptop

Hacker typing on a laptop

Security vendor CrowdStrike is not using its new Cloud Distribution deal, despite only signing it a year ago.

Global sales president Mike Carpenter said that the deal with the UK distributor Cloud Distribution was signed a year go but it no longer works with the company. He said that the company used Cloud Distribution when it was initially starting out in the UK. But it does not need them anymore.

He said the company prefered to have very direct contact with its partners.

The US-based CrowdStrike is growing like topsy and now has offices in the Netherlands and Italy. Most sales are led by a 50-strong EMEA team based in Reading, which is apparently in England.

There are plans to move into the Middle East and to open in Paris this year. Once again, though, the sales will be mostly made from the UK.

Carpenter said that many companies come into EMEA and spread themselves too thin, putting resources everywhere. And it did that to some extent initially, so “we’ve had what I call a ‘reset’ in EMEA”.

The company has been doing well thanks to the WannaCry hacking furore in 2017. However, the European security market is saturated and CrowdStrike has its work cut out by being “much agiler” (surely, more agile, Ed.)than the likes of McAfee and Symantec.

The company has also been making changes to its PR team and taken on Marlin as its UK PR agency, replacing Lewis, which did not bid to retain the work.