The severity and scale of the outage led Microsoft to host a security summit at its headquarters in Washington during which it invited CrowdStrike, key security partners, and government representatives to discuss “concrete steps” it could take to “improve security and safe deployment practices” for its clients.

After what happened with CrowdStrike, Microsoft wants to ensure that the incident doesn't repeat itself by making some important changes to its security.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Microsoft recently met with executives from some of its biggest security partners, including beleaguered CrowdStrike, to discuss ways to protect their mutual customers from another disaster.

There’s no talk of locking down the Windows kernel just yet, but Microsoft clearly wants to move endpoint security systems out of there.

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