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Who Is CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz?
A worldwide tech glitch was caused by a software update sent out by cyber security company CrowdStrike
Kurtz, also the founder of Crowdstrike, has extensive experience in the industry, having previously worked in several prominent roles for rival cyber security firm McAfee. Speaking to Forbes in 2020, he said: "The guy was talking to the flight attendant, he was reading his newspaper, and he’s doing all these things while the software is grinding away and I’m just sitting there going, oh my God. On Friday, Kurtz issued a statement apologizing “deeply” to all those affected by the outages and reassuring customers that the problem was not “a security incident or cyber attack.”
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