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by 0nate 705 days ago
The lower you go in system architecture, the greater the impact when defects occur. In this instance, the Crowdstrike agent is embedded within the Windows Kernel, and registered with the Kernel Filter Engine illustrated in the diagram below.

https://www.nathanhandy.blog/images/blog/OSI%20Model%20in%20...

If the initial root cause analysis is correct, Crowdstrike has pushed out a bug that could have been easily stopped had software engineering best practices been followed: Unit Testing, Code Coverage, Integration Testing, Definition of Done.