The CrowdStrike Reckoning: Third-Party Risk Becomes Everyone's Root Cause
The CrowdStrike Reckoning (Apr 2024 – Jun 2025) Filed July 19, 2025 — one year to the day after Channel File 291. One Friday in July 2024 caused the largest IT outage in history, and it wasn’t a cloud provider. This window’s postmortems keep circling back to the same theme: other people’s software running inside your trust boundary. A security agent in the kernel, a dealer platform an entire industry depends on, a cloud vendor deleting a customer’s data, a quota policy pushed everywhere at once. ...