By ‘this is smart’ I mean ‘this is smart… now’. Obviously they shouldn’t have been globally, simultaneously deploying kernel driver parameter changes across all customers: it was waiting to go wrong.
They still are btw, as it will take a while to engineer the correct way of doing it.
On insurance and CrowdStrike, Parametrix claim amongst just the Fortune 500 companies, they are facing $5.4bn in losses, of which around 10% will be covered by insurance.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/24/crowdstrike-outage-companies-cost