Make that 8 urgent lessons learned:
Never trust software, always verify and report!™
The Crowdstrike incident should serve as our "Cyberspace Pearl Harbor" moment that makes everyone painfully aware of the business risk and breakdown of trust that comes with our digital ecosystems, and the software components that make everything work (or not work as this incident has shown). Blind trust in software products is an invitation to disaster and business disruptions, as this incident has proven.
Like the article below (Read More) states "None of this had to happen."
This situation and similar scenarios can be avoided if everyone demands CISA "Secure by Design" products from vendors and verify that products are secure by design before buying and installing all devices, software products, upgrades and patches, following the lead of US Government Agencies, like GSA the State Department and NASA.