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Microsoft to host security summit after CrowdStrike disaster (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, you make a management API for security products that run in user space as root, you don't use kernel modules.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that the way that EDR is implemented on Linux or are you guessing?

[–] progandy@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Currently, cloudstrike offers two methods for Linux: a kernel driver / module and a theoretically safer alternative using epbf (you could call that "kernel level scripting"). Ironically, they triggered a kernel bug using that second option. They did not test all kernels they listed as compatible or something like that.