Inside CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind the global tech outage
The infamous "blue screen of death" - caused by an update glitch from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike - at Washington DC's Reagan National Airport.
CrowdStrike was founded by former executives of antivirus pioneer McAfee and launched in 2012. It has grown into the leading maker of a relatively new type of security software that’s considered among the best defenses against ransomware and other hacking threats. It controls about 18% of the $8.
Representatives of Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike confirmed online reports that a glitchy update was responsible for disabling potentially millions of corporate and government Windows computers around the world and causing the dreaded “blue screen of death.” While cybersecurity professionals say CrowdStrike’s technology is a strong way to defend against ransomware, its cost — which in some cases can be — means that most organisations don’t install it on all of their computers. What that means, however, is that the computers that have the software installed on them are among the most important to protect, and if they go down, key services can fall with them.
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