News Devastating Windows IT issue hits systems worldwide knocking broadcasters, airlines and companies offline — live updates

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A faulty update from cyber security provider CrowdStrike has taken thousands of PCs and servers offline around the world

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[MikeBY]

I don't understand how an update ends up deployed to production in so many major customers without being tested first in a representative test group by these customers.
Cloudstrike itself recommends running production no newer than N-1 (one iteration back) and safer N-2.
You then pilot a small representative group on N-1 and an IT test group runs on N.
THIS IS SOP for Cloudstrike.
What happened? Did they break their own protocols?
Did they find a vulnerability so severe that it demanded violating all risk management protocols?
Explain how is it possible to break your product so severely and bypass all these steps that are in place to protect production?
This should never happen.
There is more to this story that needs to be told.