I believe CloudStrike/DNC will skate, but get plenty of companies to switch to other software.
Many people who were affected by this had no agreement with crowd strike.
ClownStrike’s name is mud. Their reputation in the crapper. Responible corporations will look elsewhere for internet security.
What would prevent a similar problem with everyone’s bank accounts????
Small print will not protect — the other party to the contract must AGREE and must UNDERSTAND.
That said, this is immaterial. For years, decades, software companies have been protected from liability every time they get to court. There is no professionalism or engineering liability in software. Never has been. It has always been “Buyer Beware”.
I’ve done dozens of software contracts and the companies have no liability, not even under a commercial license that emphasizes a “fit for duty” responsibility.
“has been revealed by the company...”
Well, I don’t trust anything CrowdStrike says so I’ll draw my own conclusions.
“The scale of the disaster was because most major corporations use CrowdStrike”
They have been very aggressive with their marketing. Eventually I had to just block their email spam because I will never switch my company to those hacks.
This sort of ‘stuff really hurts companies.
Several of our clients were running the SolarWinds Orion product. We bailed on that and other than Pingdom (a pretty good product that does not need credentials, etc.) are done with SolarWinds.
No clients were running CrowdStrike software - this problem makes running that software more unlikely.