CrowdStrike prepares to face questions in US congress over global IT outage
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the global IT outage in July which grounded flights and delayed medical treatments, will face questions in US congress later on Tuesday.
The incident, sparked by a flawed software update rolled out by the US firm, crippled around eight and a half million computers running Microsoft software, which brought businesses and infrastructure to a standstill.
Now the company is to face questions from legislators for the first time, with Adam Meyers, senior vice president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, due to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security to assess the global impact of the outage.
In the UK, the CrowdStrike outage left GPs unable to access the digital system to manage appointments or view patient records, as well as send prescriptions to pharmacies – which were also widely impacted – forcing doctors to return to using pen and paper.
Meanwhile flights were cancelled or delayed and passengers left stranded as airline systems were knocked offline or staff were forced to handwrite boarding passes and luggage tags.
Source: Shropshire Star