The House Homeland Security Committee called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify on what happened in the massive outage that impacted several sectors.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz was called to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee over the major outage affecting Windows PCs spurred by a faulty update that brought flights, hospital procedures, and broadcasters to a halt on Friday, The Washington Post reported.
They asked that CrowdStrike schedule a hearing with the subcommittee by end of day Wednesday. The letter signals that the cleanup for the technical failure is far from over for CrowdStrike. Even on Monday, three days after the initial meltdown, Delta was dealing with flight cancelations and Blue Screens of Death. Kurtz assured the public on Friday in a social media post that the massive outage was “not a security or cyber incident.
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