Crises, Leaks, and Uncontrollable AI: The Real State of Cybersecurity in 2025
- Arnaud Fortier

- Sep 15
- 3 min read

CrowdStrike: When a bug brings down global security
With the holidays over, the past year has served as a reminder of an often-overlooked fact: our defenses can themselves become points of failure. In July 2024, faulty update content in CrowdStrike's Falcon agent triggered a global wave of blue screens on Windows, crippling airlines, banks, and utilities. This wasn't an attack, but a bug delivered to production—a brutal lesson in the need for deployment rings, canary channels, and rollback procedures for critical security tools. Microsoft cited millions of affected devices, while CrowdStrike and the Windows maker issued quick fixes and remediation guides.


