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by thundershart 704 days ago
> From what I understand, the answer to that question is no, at least for the type=channel-update change that triggered this outage. In which case I think the blame ultimately falls almost entirely on CrowdStrike.

Honestly, it hadn't even occurred to me that software like this marketed at enterprise customers wouldn't have this kind of control already available. It seems like an obvious thing that any big organization would insist on that I just took it for granted that it existed.

Whoops.

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It seems nuts to me too - MS Defender has this out of the box. From looking at sysadmins on reddit, it seems that CS has a tiered update mechanism, but didn’t use it for this change.