CrowdStrike CEO to testify about massive outage that halted flights and hospitals

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz was called to attest earlier the House Homeland Security Committee implicit the large Windows outage spurred by a faulty update that brought flights, infirmary procedures, and broadcasters to a halt connected Friday, The Washington Post reported.

“Recognizing that Americans volition undoubtedly consciousness the lasting, real-world consequences of this incident, they merit to cognize successful item however this incidental happened and the mitigation steps CrowdStrike is taking,” Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-TN) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) wrote successful a missive published by the Post. They asked that CrowdStrike docket a proceeding with the subcommittee by extremity of time Wednesday.

Kurtz assured the nationalist connected Friday successful a social media post that the monolithic outage was “not a information oregon cyber incident.” Instead, helium pointed to “an contented with a Falcon contented update for Windows Hosts,” referring to the company’s information software.

Representatives for Green, Garabino, and CrowdStrike did not instantly respond to requests for comment.