CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz was subpoenaed to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee about a major outage on Windows PCs caused by a faulty update that halted flights, hospital procedures and broadcasters on Friday. Washington post reported.
“Recognizing that Americans will undoubtedly feel the lasting real-world impacts of this incident, they should learn more about this incident,” said DHS Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of the Committee on Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity How it happened, and the mitigation steps CrowdStrike is taking,” Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) wrote in a letter later shared with us edge. them CrowdStrike was given until the end of Wednesday to schedule a hearing with the subcommittee.
Kurtz assured the public in a social media post on Friday that the massive outage was “not a security or cyber incident.” Instead, he pointed to “an issue with Falcon content updates for Windows hosts,” referring to the company’s security software.
CrowdStrike spokesman Kevin Benacci said in a statement that the company “is actively in contact with relevant congressional committees. Briefings and other engagement schedules may be disclosed at the discretion of members.”
