A heuristic that has served me well for years is that anyone who uses the word “cybersecurity” is likely incompetent and should be treated with suspicion.
My first encounter with CrowdStrike was overwhelmingly negative. I was wondering why for the last couple weeks my laptop slowed to a crawl for 1-4 hours on most days. In the process list I eventually found CrowdStrike using massive amounts of disk i/o, enough to double my compile times even with a nice SSD. Then they started installing it on servers in prod, I guess because our cloud bill wasn’t high enough.
It rather looks like Crowdstrike marketed heavily to corporate executives using a horror story about the bad IT tech guy who would exfiltrate all their data if they didn't give Crowdstrike universal access at the kernel level to all their machines...? It seems more aimed at monitoring the employees of a corporation for insider threats than for defense against APT actors.
My first encounter with CrowdStrike was overwhelmingly negative. I was wondering why for the last couple weeks my laptop slowed to a crawl for 1-4 hours on most days. In the process list I eventually found CrowdStrike using massive amounts of disk i/o, enough to double my compile times even with a nice SSD. Then they started installing it on servers in prod, I guess because our cloud bill wasn’t high enough.