Scott was interviewed by multiple Australian media outlets regarding the coverage of the CrowdStrike update incident on Friday July 19. As a former Director for Intelligence Strategy, APJ & META, Scott was able to provide keen insights into the company, offered an explanation on the possible reasons behind the incident. His analysis was impactful and essential for understanding the broader context of the major security event.

The following is a round-up of the interviews published as of Monday July 22.

Global IT chaos triggered by software glitch eases slightly

The impact of what’s being called the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen is expected to take at least several days to tally.

Australian Financial ReviewTess Bennett, Paul Smith, Andrew Tillett, Tom Richardson

Quote from The Straits Times coverage:

Mr Scott Jarkoff, former CrowdStrike regional director of threat intelligence strategy, told ST that a blue screen signals a system crash. Thus, an affected device cannot receive an update remotely. “A lot of tech teams are going to have a busy weekend,” he said.

Cyber-security firm CrowdStrike’s software update causes major outage affecting businesses globally

Experts said it could take days before everything is back to normal, as computers have to be fixed manually. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Irene ThamTech Editor

Quote from SBS News coverage:

Scott Jarkoff, former director of threat intelligence for the Asia Pacific, told the Australian Financial Review he did not believe it was a hack and instead was a "bad update pushed out to the sensor".

Jarkoff told the newspaper he believed it would likely have affected those with automatic updates turned on. He believed that those installing updates manually would only have been affected if they proceeded.

Everything we know about the major IT outage that caused chaos around the world

From what could be behind it to who has been affected, here’s what we know so far about the IT outage that rocked Australia and the world.

SBS News