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I understand the reason for it, but that ubiquity comes with potential dangers, as we saw on Friday. But, no, I don't think the solution is "five different cyber security solutions" at every site. However, different cyber security solutions for different industries might not be such a bad idea. Or, I suppose the root of the problem might be the ubiquity of the OS. Should every PC be running the same jack of all trades but master of none OS?
Again, all you are doing is increasing complexity and punting it to a support staff who are likely unqualified to even know what crowdstrike did.
This was one of those rare cases of capitalism working. There are many options. There was one that was miles ahead of all the others and that dominated.
How did capitalism as in private ownership structures help here?
Private ownership and investment of capital created Crowdstrike as a profit-seeking venture. It also created MS Defender, SentinelOne, trellix, carbon black, etc. Competition in the marketplace (and there was/is lots of competition) forced these products to be as good as they could, and or self-stratify into pricing tiers. Crowdstrike, being the best (and most expensive) is the most widely-used. Note that not every enterprise requires that level of security, and so while CS is widely used, it is not ubiquitous. This outage could have been significantly worse.