Paul Stringfellow

CTO at IT consultancy @gardnersystems and Analyst @GigaOm

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

It's Ep60 of Tech Takeaways and John Fazakerley of Liverpool airport is back. This time we talk incident response as John shares how his team dealt with the "crowdstrike incident" - great listen, lots to learn - catch it here or in your podcatcher

https://t.co/SKDRLMt9V8

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Had a fantastic weekend in Paris at the Olympics. What an incredible couple of days.. the athletics was just brilliant. All played out amongst some of the world's most iconic venues Allez Les bleus #ParisOlympics2024 #Paris2024

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Great couple of Tech Takeaways eps coming up with John Fazakerley head of IT at Liverpool Airport. First we get a behind the scenes look at running IT operations that are part of national critical infrastructure - fascinating insight - give it a go https://t.co/bW7jxIUq7Q

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That was special Keely what a star #OlympicGames

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@TrekinTech Language has power... The failure to address the way it has been used in government, leadership and the media has led to much of this. Although there also has to be a willing audience, but the Farages and Johnson's of this world knew that and used it to their own ends

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

If you use @AvantiWestCoast automated delay repay I'd check that it actually works. I've been cheated out of 3 payments recently. Avanti washing their hands of it, no surprise, claiming I didn't make the claims and they just removed them from the system. Sums them up really

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@helenpoolebooks Wow... Here's me thinking it was something to do with an iceberg, where's this genius been over the last 100 years to out us all straight. Some people are too thick to be allowed out

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@TrekinTech Far right thugs strangely sensitive aren't they... For me you can draw a direct line back to the EU referendum and the failure to deal with the normalisation of extremist language, of racism, bigotry and nationalism. We are now seeing the sadly predictiable result of this

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

On, for this week only, Tech Takeaways Thursday - Myself and Jason chat about the recent fun we all had with Crowdstrike's channel update. We pick through what happened and explore some of the questions it raised. Enjoy https://t.co/K7V5ntD03M

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Those who caused trouble in Southport tonight had no interest in the deaths of those poor girls. Neither did they have any interest in helping a community come to terms with the horror of what happened to it.

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My continued debate with @AvantiWestCoast still has them suggesting there is no issue with their system, while failing to provide any evidence. Because, the logic with automated delay repay, is that i'd not want to claim them. Still feels like trying any way to avoid paying up

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Beyond tragic and horrific the events in Southport today. Utterly heart breaking to hear 💔

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

New CTO Insights ep is here - Dr Kiri Anderson from @mimecast joins me as we chat about the human challenge in cybersecurity. We look at how the evolving threat landscape, the challenges people are facing and what as IT leaders we can do about it
https://t.co/usC2l76JGc

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Haven't posted any new stuff on my site in ages - but Friday's fun with Crowdstrike and Microsoft made me think. It's not an article of finger-pointing or sage-like wisdom, but a reflection on a couple of things I took away from Friday's events https://t.co/s1HhTnM5nr

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Good article from my friend over at @GigaOm, Howard Holton, with some takeaways from last week's CrowdStrike/Microsoft double whammy! - Some good tips on things to consider as we look at what we can learn from such incidents.
https://t.co/hupiSSp56c

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

George Kurtz over at Crowdstrike has said "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed." "it could be some time for some systems, it [won't] just automatically recover." and importantly "It wasn't a cyber attack. It was related to this, content update."

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neither @Microsoft or @CrowdStrike are having a good day here - but what i would say, Microsoft have continually posted updates - Crowdstrike have been very quiet.. they are clearly linked to this - a few updates would be nice - anyone know if they are posting updates anywhere?

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@anthonyspiteri good to see GenAI is not affected

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@BBCBreakfast are still covering this problem as a Microsoft outage. It's important to stress these are two separate issues and the Crowdstrike causing Windows blue screen may well be the one impacting services more. It's a horribly IT "perfect storm"

[Paul Stringfellow @techstringy]

Worth highlighting @BBCBreakfast there are likely 2 issues. One with Microsoft cloud impacting M365 and Azure. Secondly an update from security firm Crowdstrike, that is causing Windows desktops to fail. This is likely impacting a number of the institutions you are reporting on