Quandis Business Objects platform

Microsoft CrowdStrike Falcon Outage

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On Thursday July 18 Microsoft cloud services were impacted globally due to a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon security agent installed on Microsoft cloud servers. Microsoft and Crowdstrike resolved this problem on Friday July 19th.

Quandis uses Microsoft Azure for CI/CD, thus we were indirectly impacted as new code releases were delayed during that outage period.

Quandis does not use CrowdStrike products thus our web applications and staff workstations were not impacted

Security Update: VENOM Vulnerability does not apply to Quandis-hosted sites

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The recently discovered VENOM vulnerability does not apply to Quandis-hosted sites.
An acronym for VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT NEGLECTED OPERATIONS MANIPULATION, this applies to very specific virtualization software. Quandis does not have the affected software installed in any of our hosting environments.
For more information about VENOM as it applies to our specific hosting sites:
  • Hosting.com: neither KVM/QEMU nor Xen hypervisor are installed
  • Amazon Web Services: see their security advisory
  • Microsoft Azure: neither KVM/QEMU nor Xen hypervisor are installed
For more information about VENOM: