CrowdStrike’s ubiquity under fire as Congress calls for CEO to testify

[rbc]

In a letter Monday, the House Committee on Homeland Security demanded more transparency from CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz after major global outages were triggered by a "defect" in a recent update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor software.

Considered by some to be "the largest IT outage in history," the issue delayed or canceled thousands of flights, disabled emergency calls, postponed surgeries, and impacted banks, committee chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) wrote in the letter.
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CrowdStrike’s ubiquity under fire as Congress calls for CEO to testify