What is CrowdStrike? Here’s what to know about the company linked to global outage

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What is CrowdStrike? Here’s what to know about the company linked to global outage
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The Texas-based organization offers cloud-based security solutions and operates in over 170 countries.

As the world grapples with a global computer outage disrupting airlines, banks, media companies, and organizations and services, the issue appears in part to be related to a software update by Crowdstrike. CrowdStrike said Friday that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack — and that a fix was on the way. It added that the problem happened when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows.

RELATED: Major global outage hits airlines, banks, businesses – what to knowIn 2019, the organization launched a partnership with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team and months later became a publicly traded company. "CrowdStrike has redefined security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform that protects and enables the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern enterprise.

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