What is Crowdstrike, the company behind the unprecedented global IT outage?
PTC News Desk: Large-scale disruptions were triggered worldwide by a global technological outage. The cause of the disruption has been identified as Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that offers anti-cyberattack services to Microsoft and other businesses. Founded in 2011, Crowdstrike is a US cybersecurity company with its headquarters located in Austin, Texas.
According to the corporation, its clientele included 298 Fortune 500 companies, eight of the top ten financial services firms, seven manufacturers, six healthcare providers, and eight food companies. Investigations of cyberattacks, like the 2016 DNC hack and the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, were previously handled by Crowdstrike.
What is Crowdstrike's relationship with Microsoft?
The anti-cyberattack software from Crowdstrike is directly integrated into Microsoft's Windows operating system. This indicates that the program is used by a large number of devices worldwide.
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How Crowdstrike caused global tech outage?
Regular updates are released for software intended to combat cyberattacks. One of these upgrades, which the corporation distributed, had a fault in the code that disrupted Windows-based computers.
As a result, millions of Windows machines started to randomly start and shut down, a phenomenon known as "bootloop." It caused the "blue screen of death" for a lot of people, which denotes a serious problem.
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What Crowdstrike CEO has said on the outage?
George Kurtz, CEO of Crowdstrike, stated that the problem was found not long after the update was made available. "We quickly identified this and resolved the issue," he stated. Additionally, as systems reboot and come back up, they do so in a functional manner."
"We fixed it on our end," he continued, "and many of the customers are rebooting the system and it's coming up and (being) operational." We are assisting some of the systems that aren't healing. For certain systems, it could take some time before they fully recover."
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- With inputs from agencies
