In episode two of our podcast series Compass Check: Global Affairs, Jason Pandak, Vice President of Capital Markets at AmeriVet Securities, connects with cybersecurity expert and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Brian Denman. Colonel Denman is a member of our advisory board and he retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2019, after a distinguished 25-year career in communications and cyberspace warfare.

In part one of a three-part discussion, Colonel Denman provides a deep dive on:

The historic CrowdStrike outage and key takeaways, including incident response and risk management
The Kaspersky Lab ban, trusted provider risks to national security, and why trusted providers who act in bad faith can create incidents much worse than the CrowdStrike outage

References:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Executive-Summary_Root-Cause-Analysis_Channel-File-291.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BitLocker-recovery-without-recovery-keys-2.0.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-kernel-access-security-architecture/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

https://www.georgetown.edu/news/ask-a-professor-crowdstrike-outage/#:~:text=Because%20so%20many%20core%20systems,other%20routine%20societal%20systems%20affected .

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-crowdstrike-tech-outage-reignited-a-battle-over-the-heart-of-microsoft-systems-72b62c90

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