Risk Management for Developers: A 2026 Practitioner Guide"

At 04:09 UTC on July 19, 2024, a single CrowdStrike Falcon sensor update hit production. Within minutes, roughly 8.5 million Windows machines across airlines, banks, hospitals, and stock exchanges entered a boot loop that had to be fixed by hand, machine by machine. Insurers later pegged the direct Fortune 500 loss at around $5.4 billion, with Delta alone claiming $500 million in damages. The proximate cause was a mismatched input-field count between an inter-process communication template and t