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WINDOWS SECURITY BEST PRACTICES FOR INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SECURITY TOOLS

microsoft.com21 min read

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This blog post discusses the recent CrowdStrike outage, which was caused by a memory safety error in the CSagent driver, and provides technical insights into the root cause. Windows usually has safeguards for the quality of third-party security products. Microsoft discourages the use of kernel drivers by security solutions, but it is forced to allow them due to regulation, which is one of the reasons why the CrowdStrike outage happened.