{"id":7014,"date":"2024-08-29T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=announcement&#038;p=7014"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:08:04","slug":"why-robust-product-updates-are-so-important","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/announcements\/why-robust-product-updates-are-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why robust product updates are so important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major IT outage in July 2024 caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update has brought many questions to us from our Partners and Customers, the most important one being &#8220;What steps does WithSecure take to avoid distributing a faulty update&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We have now taken time to create <a href=\"http:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.withsecure.com%2Fen%2Fexpertise%2Fblog-posts%2Fwhy-robust-software-updates-are-important\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">an informative article on our public website<\/a>, which documents the overall process.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this is a summary of the steps taken, the actual internal process is much more detailed than shown in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major IT outage in July 2024 caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update has brought many questions to us from our Partners and Customers, the most important one being &#8220;What&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","announcement_category":[142],"class_list":["post-7014","announcement","type-announcement","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_system":"vanilla-import","import_hash":"bd0ea68a019029c31257c7ed608b473ad3bcd2c8","vanilla_article_id":31353,"legacy_author":"AndyF_WS","vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/announcements-en\/kb\/articles\/31353-why-robust-product-updates-are-so-important","vanilla_category_id":142,"machine_translated":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/announcement"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8396,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/7014\/revisions\/8396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"announcement_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement_category?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}