'Today, there's only three companies that control global access to internet trade and commerce,' a tech analyst said.
"Today, there's only three companies that control global access to internet trade and commerce, and that's Alphabet-the parent company of Google-Microsoft, and Apple," Rex Lee, a security adviser to companies, government agencies, and lawmakers, told NTD. "And the vulnerabilities within that are single choke points throughout the network that can take down millions of customers." Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike, founded in 2011, provides cloud-based software that protects computer systems against cyberattacks to tens of thousands of companies, organizations, and government agencies around the world-including 300 of the Fortune 500 companies.
The company's software has access to the most central elements of computer operating systems.
The company rose to prominence, offering more nimble, artificial-intelligence-based software, that was seen by many as a better, smarter way to protect operating systems from today's hackers, who were going beyond circulating computer viruses.
"Today's sophisticated attackers are going 'beyond malware' to breach organizations, increasingly relying on exploits, zero days, and hard-to-detect methods such as credential theft and tools that are already part of the victim's environment or operating system, such as PowerShell," CrowdStrike's website states.
In the tech world, a kernel, sometimes called the engine of computer operating systems, is a program within the operating system that manages the system and coordinates the different processes within the system.
If the kernel is outdated, it can leave the operating system vulnerable to outside tampering; if it malfunctions, the entire operating system may malfunction along with it.
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