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CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown
The committee had called on the CEO to testify.
A senior CrowdStrike executive will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next month about the IT outage that grounded planes and workplaces to a halt globally on July 19th. In a statement, Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) said that while he’d hoped Kurtz could attend, “I look forward to hearing testimony from Mr. Meyers, who CrowdStrike assured was the appropriate witness to discuss the details of the outage. Green said in a separate statement that the flawed software update that impacted 8.5 million Windows machines “...demonstrates the urgency of promoting cyber hygiene and resiliency amid increased threats,” and that the “growing reliance on interconnected IT systems has expanded the risk surface.”
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