Polygon Labs ' chief information security officer (CISO) on Friday confirmed the company uses the CrowdStrike service.
However, he clarified that the company's systems and services were not affected while the world's IT infrastructure was down due to the CrowdStrike update.
Polygon Labs uses the CrowdStrike service
Mudit Gupta, CISO at Polygon Labs, took to social media platform X on July 19 to confirm that they were not affected by the global outage.
He said the company also uses Crowdstrike, but it doesn't roll out non-critical updates before testing, something the company takes for security.
“Much of the world's IT infrastructure is currently offline, including emergency services, airports and stock exchanges.
Why other companies supporting critical operations don't do that is beyond me."
A bug in the latest version of Crowdstrike falcon EDR has caused blue screens and crashes for millions of Windows users globally, affecting airlines, railways, stock exchanges and many other businesses. other career.
Online Cryptocurrency and Web3 Services Amid Global Shutdown
Cryptocurrency and Web3 remain unfazed by Microsoft's outage. Notably, even if Polygon Labs is affected, the Polygon network will continue to operate because it is decentralized.
Mudit Gupta said:
“Even if Polygon Labs were affected in such an IT incident, nothing would be affected on the Polygon network.”
Cryptocurrency exchanges and other services remain online. Bybit announced that it was not affected by the latest outage and assured customers and traders that “all business operations continue as usual at Bybit.”
Cryptocurrency experts warn industries still depend on Web2 for business, and the outage is another wake-up call for these companies and industries. Blockchain and digital assets are the solution.
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Ykovenko said all Microsoft Windows machines are like clients plugged into a giant Windows computer. “Sun Microsystems arrived 30 years early!”
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