“The Blue Screen of Death,” the visible face of the CrowdStrike failure that affected Microsoft and companies around the world

MADRID, (Portaltic/EP) – The ‘blue screen of death’ has become the visible face of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform update error that this Friday affected numerous companies from different sectors around the world that use Windows computers.

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity firm specializing in endpoint protection in the context of cloud technology, with the goal of stopping security breaches.

Its main product is Falcon, a platform designed with a light and simple architecture that amplifies artificial intelligence in the cloud and offers real-time protection and visibility of all the organization’s assets. Microsoft is one of its clients.

It was precisely a Falcon update that caused failures in Windows hosting related to Falcon Sensor, the agent in which the different security solutions are implemented in the terminal. This has led to numerous computer equipment around the world displaying the so-called ‘blue screen of death’.

This is a way of reporting an error in Windows, which displays, as its name suggests, a blue screen and a brief indication of the problem that has been detected and that prevents the computer from working correctly, in this case due to the failure in the CrowdStrike solution. Microsoft explains on its website that this blue screen is usually displayed “if a serious problem causes Windows to shut down or restart unexpectedly.”