A US House committee called on the CEO of CrowdStrike to testify on a defective software update that caused widespread global outages.
A US House committee called on the chief executive officer of CrowdStrike to testify on a defective software update that caused widespread global outages.
“In less than one day, we have seen major impacts to key functions of the global economy, including aviation, health care, banking, media and emergency services,” committee chair Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican, and Representative Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican and chairman of the panel’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, wrote in“Recognizing that Americans will undoubtedly feel the lasting, real-world consequences of this incident, they deserve to know in...
Other congressional committees have asked company officials for briefings on the outage, its causes and CrowdStrike’s response.
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