That sounds low... Really low. E.g. NYC has ~350k employees and I know they got hit hard. Not all of them have windows machines, but let's say 100k do. I know they basically all have falcon installed. That's 100k in just one org, not even counting their windows servers. How many Fortune 500s are mainly Windows?
Edit: I did some back of napkin math. ~30 million work for a fortune 500. Let's say 2/3rds of those have a Windows desktop provided by employer, so ~20M. I think I read crowdstrike has about ~25% market share, so that's 5 mil just in fortune 500. No way it's just 8.5M
Crowdstrikes pricing is really unapproachable for smaller businesses and they aren't interested in that market. Your maths for the f500 may well cover more than half their business.
No it's not. Small businesses are used to paying $5-$15 for remote control, reporting, 3rd party patching, reports, automation, etc. Unless the business has huge margins, you're getting laughed out of the room @60.
Well, what's more important is which devices compared to how many, because many many many consumer home PC's are running windows, and not all machines are equal. A windows server running a train station != grandmas PC, so when they say "it's only 1% of the windows fleet" they are missing out "it's all of the production machines that are running society"
Windows AND Crowdstrike. I work for a pretty large corporation and the only effects for us was a few third party applications. We use M365 extensively and didn't see any issues there at all either.
I do think there are a mountain of AD servers out there though. Not sure I care to quantify exactly how many makes a mountain. but I'd think 2 commas for sure. more than a million? less than 100 million? that seems like the right ballpark.
Apparently the "virus" definition data (whatever it is called) can be auto updated while the computer is booting. Not sure if the intention was for it to update before or after Crowdstrike is activated, but there is a racing condition where on some machines the update will execute before activating after a lot of attempts.
Edit: I did some back of napkin math. ~30 million work for a fortune 500. Let's say 2/3rds of those have a Windows desktop provided by employer, so ~20M. I think I read crowdstrike has about ~25% market share, so that's 5 mil just in fortune 500. No way it's just 8.5M