CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown

Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s elder vice president of antagonistic adversary operations, has agreed to look earlier the sheet connected September 24th astatine 2PM ET, the committee announced. Committee leaders had previously called connected CEO George Kurtz to testify, but he’s not presently listed arsenic a witness.

In a statement, Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) said that portion he’d hoped Kurtz could attend, “I look guardant to proceeding grounds from Mr. Meyers, who CrowdStrike assured was the due witnesser to sermon the details of the outage. Americans merit to cognize successful item however this incidental happened and the mitigation CrowdStrike is taking to debar the cascading impacts of outages similar this crossed sectors.”

Green said successful a abstracted connection that the flawed bundle update that impacted 8.5 cardinal Windows machines “...demonstrates the urgency of promoting cyber hygiene and resiliency amid accrued threats,” and that the “growing reliance connected interconnected IT systems has expanded the hazard surface.”

Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), who chairs the subcommittee connected Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, said successful a connection that the proceeding volition beryllium “an important accidental to larn much astir what steps the institution has taken successful the aftermath of the outage to guarantee it doesn’t hap again.” Though the outage wasn’t the effect of a cyberattack, Garbarino said adversaries apt watched the lawsuit and “learned however a faulty bundle update tin trigger cascading effects connected our captious infrastructure.”