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CrowdStrike boss apologises for global IT outage
Adam Meyers, a senior vice president with the IT firm at the heart of July's mass outage, faced a grilling by US lawmakers.
"A global IT outage that impacts every sector of the economy is a catastrophe that we would expect to see in a movie," said Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in his opening remarks. The Tennessee representative likened the widespread impact of CrowdStrike’s faulty content update to an attack “we would expect to be carefully executed by a malicious and sophisticated nation-state actor”. Lawmakers on the committee raised concerns about the impact of large-scale cyber events on national security, adding they could also be exploited by bad actors looking to capitalise on confusion or panic.
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