What are your organization's plans for CrowdStrike following the recent outage? Are you re-evaluating your relationship, and if so, how are you avoiding making a knee-jerk reaction?

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Director of IT in Manufacturinga year ago

Since our contract is due for renewal, this incident is giving us leverage to re-look at contract, look options for renew and plan next steps with or without them.  Error is human so this incident, despite its global reprecussion has limited impact on our end, but we hope Crowdstrike will recover from this.

CEO in Services (non-Government)a year ago

We took step back and see the whole portfolio of agent and agent less security tools to ensure the balance is right, it’s undeniable that things like this will happen. We rely on software and software defined infrastructure in many aspects of business and life.

Senior Vice President Technology Vendor & Asset Management in Mediaa year ago

We are locked in so no real leeway to look at other tools. Also, that type of project could also be very disruptive to the enterprise. It's best to learn and adapt as this could have happened to any tool.

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CIO in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

We are not re-evaluating the relationship but are looking to configure our own "canary" setup within our deployment. That will be difficult, but we're working with them to review it. Additionally, as has been stated, we feel that leverage on pricing will be helpful. 

Vice President - Enterprise Platforms & Cybersecurity in Energy and Utilitiesa year ago

We are not re-evaluating our relationship, we are in discussions with them to expand the services we purchase from them & feel the recent incident gives us additional leverage in pricing discussions.

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