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CrowdStrike outage briefly impacted national organ transplant matching system

As federal agencies continue to confront the impact of Friday’s worldwide IT incident, Congress signals future action.

Citizenship and Immigration Services told FedScoop that the Department of Homeland Security component might take more than a week to bring some systems back online. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., who chairs the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, sent a letter to CrowdStrike’s CEO on Monday requesting testimony by early Wednesday evening. In a statement to FedScoop over the weekend, Green said he was planning to seek answers to “how we can prevent a widespread disruption like this from happening again.” He acknowledged that the outages do not seem to be a cyberattack, but emphasized the need to secure IT systems and ensure network resilience involving the impact of “vendor concentration risk.”

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